Word: settlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another early Krans beloved of the colony's descendants showed a fiercelooking Jansonite settler in his Lapland boots, buffalo robe coat, wide leather belt scaring the daylights out of a Plains Indian. Most decorative was a scene of seven scythe-swinging reapers, moving rhythmically over a gigantic wheat field while the women followed behind, gathering and binding the sheaves...
Thirty-three years later a settler has cleared a field in the forest, built a log house, and is grazing his cattle among the huge stumps of the white pines. Model No. 3 shows the same hillside in 1830, at the height of rural cultivation in New England: stone walls and white farm houses are everywhere; only a few straggling wood lots remain of the original forest...
...plain, where women are scarce and the men are hard cases. Not because they wanted to avoid trippers but because the idea ex- cited them, Herbert Childs and his newly-married wife went to Patagonia on their honeymoon. She had been there before, had heard tales of an English settler far in the interior who might be good copy for a book. Getting to Patagonia was exciting in itself. They were the only passengers on the freighter that took them from Los Angeles down around South America, and after riding out a hurricane, through the sinister Straits of Magellan. Once...
...arrival of the cattle on the great 400,000,000-acre pasture of the Plains, the inrush of speculators in the wake of the railroads. A homesteader's plow bites into soil held together by the deep roots of prairie grass. Warns a voice: ''Settler, plough at your peril!" A grizzled farmer observes, without comprehending, the first sign of drought. Then comes a Wartime boom in which higher & higher prices are quickly followed by more & more wheat planting until the grass that once bound this country together has given way to endless fields under a parching...
...years ago he traveled to the U. S., paid an official call on President Roosevelt, presented him with two lion pelts (TIME, July 31, 1933). Last week found him at the head of an irregular army estimated at 200,000 preparing to join forces with a disgruntled white settler from Italian Somaliland, a onetime Boer Colonel named Siwiank, to try a surprise attack on General Graziani's flank from the difficult waterless lands of Ogaden Province...