But few indeed are left who can describe or define the sensation of commingled joy, dread and uncertainty that fills the heart of the lonely homesteader on an occasion like this.
On one occasion, while gathering driftwood along the shores of the Columbia, a homesteader saw a man working among the rocky cliffs far above him.
His appearance was more that of a typical tramp than the sturdy homesteader he really was.
I was the only colored homesteader on the reservation, and as an agriculturist it began to look mighty bad for the colored race on the Little Crow.
Such advantages had not been the lot of the homesteader twenty and thirty years before.
The Homesteader Mother England, I am coming, cease your calling for a season, For the plains of wheat need reaping, and the thrasher's at the door.
The homesteader may add to his holdings by purchasing adjoining land from the Canadian Northern, Canadian Pacific Railway and other corporations.
With farm already selected, it is perfectly safe, and to the prospective homesteader he can get some sort of occupation until early spring, when he will be on the ground ready for it.
He told us that he was on his way to arrest and fine the careless homesteader who had flooded the road.
Having seen the rich land of our brave homesteader in Monitor Valley, I was ready to believe this outburst of local pride.
Barber, an army comrade, a homesteader in northwestern Nebraska.
On this we hung a few pictures, and when the homesteader appeared at the door, he stood amazed at our fine appearance.
The Pilot so informed the homesteaderand bade him prepare.
The homesteader was a sick man (said they), and he had asked for the Pilot.
Two lumber-jacks came out of the woods to fetch him to the bedside of a sick homesteader who had been at work in the lumber-camps.
As if to show his contempt for those who hunted him, and to emphasize his own feeling of security, he slipped down to the edge of the fenced lands and struck down anotherhomesteader that afternoon, leaving him dead at the handles of his plow.
He reached it at the moment that the man in the disguise of a homesteader pushed it open.
There was no way to shut that; the original battens of the homesteader lay under foot, broken apart and rotting.
The gaunt old homesteader with the cloud of sorrows in his eyes said that he had been on his way over to see what had become of Macdonald in his lone hunt for Mark Thorn.
Now, as the homesteaderleaped back in sudden alarm, they closed in on him with their revolvers drawn.
It was the first word that she had spoken since they had taken refuge from their close-pressing pursuers in the dugout that some old-time homesteader had been driven away from by Chadron's cowboys.
From a sheltered thicket in the foothills the cattleman had watched the homesteader through his field glasses, making certain that he was returning Thorn to the scene of his latest crimes, instead of risking the long road to the Meander jail.
But with the coming of the homesteader and his fenced land, stock has had to be raised in smaller herds and more restricted areas.
The Land of the Homesteader The cowman used to insist that no one could make a living on the semi-arid Range.
No more unhappy irony can befall the homesteader than to burn down his shack in his attempts to warm it.
They give the homesteader a lot of free pasture an' hay land, fer instance.
Hugh O'Donnell, then confined in the county jail, was the only Homesteader of prominence that refused to go over to the Democracy.
The young Homesteader left without confiding his plans to anybody.
A homesteader may live within nine miles of his homestead on a farm of at least 80 acres solely owned and occupied by him or by his father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister.
In addition to that there are many districts in which, having secured the freehold of his homestead, the homesteader is permitted to pre-empt a second 160 acres at the nominal price of $3 an acre.
In certain districts a homesteader in good standing may pre-empt a quarter-section alongside his homestead.
A homesteader who has exhausted his homestead right by already homesteading and cannot obtain a pre-emption may acquire a homestead by purchase in certain districts.
The homesteader often takes these deserted places, after paying a mere trifle for the improvements.
The old trail had been cut off when The Homesteader in whose house she had seen the light, had laid out his claim, and it was this which caused the confusion.
Upon hearing a sound, she turned to find The Homesteader leading her horse, saddled and bridled from the barn.
Notwithstanding, through it--directly against it at most times, The Homesteader struggled resolutely forward.
The coal The Homesteader had hauled from Bonesteel was not all for himself, but for the lumber yard which sold it at fifteen dollars the ton, and the quality was soft, and not of the best grade at that.
Finally everyhomesteader around Ammons who went to town stopped in at the express office to get them for us.
He was a homesteader who taught the McClure school that winter, a slim, round-shouldered chap, rather frail in physique.
We had just finished breakfast one morning when Huey Dunn and another homesteader drove up to the door with their teams, dragging some heavy timbers along.
It's Thursday night--the night the paper goes to press," more than one homesteader said as he saw it.
Dave Dykstra had resigned to farm his land, and Sam Frye, a younghomesteader with a family, was appointed.
We hired a homesteader who had a mower to put up hay for us and had a frame made of poles for a small barn and stacked the hay on top around it, against the winter.
I became a sort of mediator between thehomesteader and the United States Land Office.
A bachelor homesteader had it and they are always the worst.
From a homesteader who was proving up and leaving we bought an old wire cot.
A young homesteader rushed into the print shop one day, white as a sheet.
The bachelor homesteader had left it black with grease.
But no matter what hard luck a homesteader had or how much he had paid the government, unless he could meet the payments and all other requirements fully he lost the land and all he had put into it.
A homesteaderliving ten miles out stepped into the land office while we were there.
We were filling the cracks with putty when a bachelor homesteader stopped by and watched the operation in disgust.
A half hour passed and every homesteaderwas sleeping soundly.
It was a good quarter section upon which this ambitious homesteader had filed.
Then add to riches already possessed, the surety of a barn and corral in September, and the probability of twelve pure-bred Shropshire sheep, and what homesteader would not sing for joy?
They had made a special effort to open that morning, and the homesteaderwas grateful.
Witnesses were never lacking to swear to the improvements he had made, and after the patent had been granted the homesteader (for the contestant always won, in that country) the Sawtooth, would pay him for the land.
True, if a homesteader left his claim for a longer time than the law allowed him, Bill Warfield would choose one of his own men to file a contest on that claim.
Alec guided Carrots around a homesteader who had marked his claim with a huge white sheet.
The homesteader was looking frantically for the corners.
Why a homesteader should have chosen to locate there is a mystery.
A homesteader hitting town for the first time in a year, probably.
It proved to be a little log structure, built by a homesteader in the early days.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "homesteader" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
