Sheep and cattle, introduced by homesteaders, munched the grasses that fueled periodic fires. |
In fact, they are slowly decaying Western ghost towns, relics of 19th-century homesteaders and gold seekers who abandoned them decades ago. |
In 1887, Congress confiscated 90 million acres from Indian tribes and offered it to white homesteaders. |
So they tried to have the unassigned lands legally declared open to homesteaders. |
In her poetry, this is apparent in the representation of prairie homesteaders as cultivators and, by extension, civilizers of an untamed western wilderness. |
The new young homesteaders had a real interest in revitalizing agriculture. |