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[ noun ] someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it

Synonyms

nester squatter

Used in print

(Gene Caesar, Rifle for Rent....)

But there were other homesteaders who passed the Lewis murder off as a personal grudge killing , the work of one of his neighbors .

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field_glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper_Laramie country in a single week .

He had made himself the personification of the_Devil to the homesteaders .

Related terms

settler homestead

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