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homesteader

[hohm-sted-er] / ˈhoʊmˌstɛd ər /
NOUN
colonist
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NOUN
squatter
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“I also had this growing desire to be a homesteader for real. And then after a while I was just like, ‘I grew a tomato!

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 20, 2025

It all goes back to her father, Isaac Newton, the homesteader, and his perennial financial problems.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 9, 2023

I placed Sandra as the homesteader in the classic western.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2022

Hannigan also learned that in 1881, at 58, she married Harvey Clark, a Black homesteader and widower from South Carolina.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2021

Her brother had gone out to Montana himself and assured her this was the text any homesteader must have for farming in eastern prairie country.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson


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