Homesteaded [verb]

It was in 1864 that he had homesteaded and secured the farm property which he still owns.

He raised two crops in Walla Walla county and in the fall of 1877 removed to Columbia county, where he homesteaded eighty acres.

Later, Old Man Ivison homesteaded the place, knowing nothing of its strange history.

He had come out to Montana about ten years before and homesteaded what he reckoned as the loveliest spot on the whole Yellowstone.

He later homesteaded 40 acres of land that he received from the government and began farming.

Your lumberman, then, homesteaded 160 acres on a slope of forest affording good timber skids and chutes.

Widow Ames had homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of government land in Dry Hollow.

Ten Russian laborers first homesteaded in the Grassy Butte region, forming the nucleus of the present-day farming population.

The same, having to be homesteaded before title was acquired, had all ready been in part arranged for.

Houston, a native of Wisconsin, had already invented one camera when he homesteaded in North Dakota in 1869.