Transiency is usual inhomesteading country, many people only remaining long enough to homestead their land.
Very little homesteading has been done in the Big Horn National Forest because the entire area is above the practical range of farm crops, and killing frosts occur every month in the year.
To me, homesteading is the solution of all poverty's problems, but I realize that temperament has much to do with success in any undertaking, and persons afraid of coyotes and work and loneliness had better let ranching alone.
It wouldn't be homesteading at all if we carried food.
They're safer there, in my opinion, than any place I know, and if they want to know what homesteading is like, why let them homestead for a night!
At least as comfortable as one would wish, homesteading for one night," said Priscilla.
We want to see how it will really seem to be homesteading all alone.
There are lots of things I envy Jean MacDonald, but homesteading isn't one of them!
Don't try to keep him at home if homesteading looks good to him.
One and a half million acres of land are open for free homesteading in Manitoba--east of the Red River, and between lakes Winnipeg and Manitoba, also west of Lake Manitoba and in the newly opened districts along the railway lines.
His plan of homesteading the water-hole ranch had been upset by the arrest of Sundown.
All you have to do is to 'tend to business and forget that I have ever spoken to you abouthomesteading the place.
This would be entering the enemy's territory with a vengeance, yet there was no law prohibiting his homesteading the ranch, the title of which had reverted to the Government.
Pears like there was a pretty fair prospect of your whole family coming of age before another siege of homesteading is ended.
If he should, all that you can do will be to file on the claim again and go in for another five years' tussle with the homesteading problem.
The thought of homesteading revived rich old memories--memories from which the kindly years had balmed the soreness and the privation and the hardship, and left only the joy and the courage and the comradeship and the conquering.
The idea of homesteading together assured further years of close relationship between father and son, and the younger man fell in whole-heartedly with it.
They're MEN on these Plains, who are doing this homesteading up and down these river valleys, and you write every letter of the word with a capital.
To take a place like this in the community such as homesteading involves, requires the assumption of responsibility, and responsibility always develops.
To her homesteading offers one solution of poverty's problem; but she adds, if the would-be homesteader is afraid of coyotes and work and loneliness, she had better let ranching alone.
A well-balanced judgment comes from Elinore Rupert Stewart, whose homesteading experience has been detailed in a delightful book and whose record of a working day has been shared with us in an earlier chapter.
Settlers rushed into "Imperial Ward" County when it was surveyed and opened tohomesteading in 1896.
Moreover, homesteading in the northern part of the Territory was complicated by the fact that the nearest land office was at Vermilion, 400 miles away, a long and perilous trip in the day of the oxcart and dogsled.
Many so-called newspapers were nothing more than a final proof-sheet, printed in order that settlers might comply with the homesteading law which required publication of notice of final claim.
So many homesteading necessities could be purchased at the pioneer settlements that after reading Dakota newspapers of this period a North Carolina editor announced that "the people are fully up to the highest notch of civilization.
When at the age of sixteen he became a Canadian and went to work on various farms, finally homesteading in Alberta, that interest he carried with him.
The place was near Sintaluta, District of Assiniboia, North-West Territories, and homesteading there in the days before the Rebellion was no feather bed for those who tackled it.
The forests are open to homesteading wherever the land is agricultural; but you can hardly call land agricultural that's a sheer drop of 1,000 feet, though the big trees growing on it would each build a house of six rooms.
He had seen a good deal of homesteadingconditions in the West; he knew the hardships involved in "holding down" claims, of which the dreary monotony and loneliness of the life were not the least.
It hurts my heart to think of you at this homesteading business--" "What else was there for me?
Knowing that happiness is ahead of us, oh, homesteading then will be only a lark!
You're the young ladies who are homesteading just south of here, aren't you?
Really, this homesteading game isn't for women and girls.
One panic-stricken look at the black, tar-papered shack, standing alone in that barren expanse, and the last spark of our dwindling enthusiasm for homesteading was snuffed out.
We were young and demanded some fun, and feminine enough to find life more interesting when the young men who were homesteading began to gather at the shack in little groups.
And the little outlaw printer, to her overwhelming surprise, was being recognized not only on the Strip but beyond it, as an authority on the homesteading project and a champion of the homesteaders.
It announced that the United States Government would open the Lower Brulé reservation to entry for homesteading on a given date.
But we were a jump ahead of the Lower Brulé settlers in homesteading experience, and there were many local issues with which to make a start.
But in many instances they brought landseekers with them who legally filed contests and homesteading rights over the settler.
The laws governing homesteading were technical, with many provisions which gave rise to controversy.
We had about $300 saved up, and this was enough, we decided, to cover homesteading expenses, inasmuch as the shack was provided.
Subscriptions for The Wand came in from the outside world, from people who had friends homesteading on the Brulé, and from people interested in the growth of the West.
Through the early homesteading days folk who "picked up and set themselves down to grub on a piece of land" were not of the world or important to it.
It was a frontier saying that homesteading was a gamble: "Yeah, the United States Government is betting you 160 acres of land that you can't live on it eight months.
Homesteading was now the biggest movement in America.
There was a milk cow and consequently homemade butter and cottage cheese--all the makeshift discomforts of homesteading replaced by the solid and enduring qualities of home.
Good; but your homesteading lumberman now watched his chance for a high wind away from his claim.
Your homesteading lumberman then set up a sawmill.
It was her wish to be a unique person who was not afraid of homesteading in the self and listened to and experimented with original thoughts that a good intelligence removed of cacophony devised.
But as she went into the bathroom to vomit she thought such a reaction was as feeble and absurd as homesteading within the herds.
I'll even try to tolerate that club-footed cowboy's brass in homesteading a ranch right under my nose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "homesteading" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
