For the large clearing-party with its attendant expense and need of oversight may be substituted clearing by contract; when some one or two of the poorer and more industrious homesteaders will contract to cut and clear at so much the acre or the piece, boarding themselves, and taking their own time and methods of doing the work.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
The Simpsons had indeed earned the proud name of homesteaders.
"We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run"
James Arthur Kjelgaard
If homesteaders could have no part of Oklahoma, why were wealthy cattlemen allowed to take so much of it?
"We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run"
James Arthur Kjelgaard