After the initial rush to colonize, it had been difficult to induce new homesteaders to make the long voyage; but she never dreamed that there were problems out there.

Even here at Pogorelovka, where the local authorities have looked kindly on the newcomers, 8 of the original 15 settlers have pushed on, daunted by the sacrifices asked of Russia's new rural homesteaders.

French was not popular with new homesteaders in the area because he owned or controlled most of the water in the southern Harney Basin.

He was successful in his extermination, and so creating safety for the new homesteaders.

By the spring of 1905, many people who had homesteaded the summer before along with new homesteaders began building.

Thus, when a new "homesteader," in Geocities' lingo, wants to set up a page, he or she selects a lot in a particular city.

Conflicting land claims led to bitter quarrels among the original Spanish inhabitants, cattle ranchers, and newer homesteaders.

Yet, gradually, despite initially high hopes, the new homesteaders find the Alaskan topography and climate in their own way as daunting as the conditions encountered by their earlier Western prototypes.

On September 13, 1855, the fist child was born among the new homesteaders.

The valley had been settled by rancher Craig Dolan, who does not want the new homesteaders to be there.