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Jan 15, 2013 · The Homesteaders (1953) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #TheHomesteaders The roughest, toughest screen cowboy of all, Wild Bill Elliott was ironically known as the "peaceable man," the...
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Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may also involve the small scale production of textiles, clothing, and craft work for household use or sale.
The Homesteaders is a 1953 American Western film directed by Lewis D. Collins, and starring Bill Elliott, Robert Lowery, and Emmett Lynn.
Homestead Movement, in U.S. history, movement that promoted the free ownership of land in the Midwest, Great Plains, and the West by people willing to settle on and cultivate it. The movement culminated in the Homestead Act of 1862.
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In 1862 the US government introduced a Homestead Act. The aim of this was to encourage people to move west. They were offered 160 acres of land for free, as long as they lived on it and farmed it...
Homesteaders, sometimes credited with settling the West, were people who took advantage of the Homestead Act of 1862. The first family to do so was that of Daniel Freeman (1826 – 1908), who made a land claim on January 1, 1863, the day the law went into effect.
May 30, 2012 · The Homestead Act of 1862 stated that any current or future citizen, with a mere ten dollars, could claim a homestead of up to 160 acres of government land, and “improve” the land by putting it to use as a family plot.
