12.At length, however, both had to go, as the homesteaders and land companies came and fenced in the plain and desert with endless lines of barbed wire.
13.She was a child of the Depression, the daughter of a schoolteacher and a bookkeeper at a small oil refinery, themselves the children of farmers and homesteaders.
14.Many small homesteaders and farm laborers were forced to migrate from the rural countryside to the cities or give up their own small farms to work on the larger ones.
15.Many of the giant squares that one sees when flying across the Great Plains today are those very same 160-acre plots that were forged out of the prairie in the late 19th century by homesteaders.