He homesteaded a claim near Beeler, where he maintained a small conservatory of plants and flowers and a geological collection.

Hawk's maternal grandfather, C. W. Howard ( 1845 – 1916 ), had homesteaded in Neenah, Wisconsin in 1862 at age 17 and within 15 years had earned a fortune in the town's paper mill and other industrial endeavors.

John Shepherd, one of the first of the new settlers, homesteaded of land three miles ( 4. 8 km ) north of Georges Creek in 1864.

The Bryce Canyon area was settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1850s and was named after Ebenezer Bryce, who homesteaded in the area in 1874.

Because by 1900 much of the prime low-lying alluvial land along rivers had been homesteaded, an update called the Enlarged Homestead Act was passed in 1909.

It excluded Cheyenne who had homesteaded further east near the Tongue River.

Those who had homesteaded east of the Tongue River were relocated to the west of the river.

He homesteaded the land in the Mystic River ( Forked Creek ) Valley.

Most of the settlers homesteaded around the number of tributaries that fed the Columbia River.

Later, farmers moved into the survey area and homesteaded on small tracts of land.

Charles Downie, a Scot, homesteaded in 1881 and became the first permanent sheepman in the area.

The county is named after Marshall Vincent, who homesteaded near Andover, South Dakota.

Stutsman County was created by the 1872-73 territorial legislature and named for Elias Stutsman, who was born with Phocomelia ( lacking arms or legs ), but who nonetheless not only homesteaded, but became a powerful politician in the early days of the Dakota Territory.

They homesteaded the fertile valleys and soon log cabins dotted various parts of the country.

The area known as Pleasant Grove, Alabama was first homesteaded in September 1836.

This same year, Tom L. Johnson homesteaded the site of the long-abandoned Yup ' ik village in the Aniak area and opened a store and post office there to service prospectors and miners in the vicinity.

Rika also homesteaded an adjoining piece of land.

Kenny Lake is a farming community-one of the last to be homesteaded in America.

“ My great-grandfather landed at West Point in 1865 from a steamboat, and homesteaded of land by building a log house ,” Hamilton said.

Merriam homesteaded in the north Twin Oaks Valley and began wine and honey production.

In the 1880s, Julius Orton homesteaded another () piece of land bordering on the property of pioneers Lewis and John Keeley, brothers who had taken on a homestead just a few miles southwest of Lindsay in the mid 1870's.

It was here that Mr. Emery and his three sons, Augustus, Jr., 21, William, 19, and Harvey, 17, would construct the family home on 160 acres of homesteaded property.

In 1886, the LaFever saw-mill opened and in 1887, Edward Bradley Gould, for whom the town is named, homesteaded 640 acres.

" The park's 842 acres were homesteaded by Squire Lathum in 1855 before being sold to John Miller.

Later, Dr. Clarence Wells homesteaded and then traded for an additional 300 acres ( 1. 2 km² ).

Luke Warneke ( who stood ) had homesteaded 160 acres and was a successful farmer in the farming community of Owley, which consisted of fifteen families.

Pattison homesteaded the land that became the original plot on which Andover was built.

The original town of Imperial was built on land homesteaded by Thomas Mercier and M. L.

Walter Knott and his wife Cordelia, founders of Knott's Berry Farm, were homesteaded at Newberry Springs around this time, and Knott helped built the redwood cyanide tanks for the plant.

He built a hunting lodge, cabin, and hotel for his guests and illegally homesteaded up to in an unsuccessful attempt to create a private hunting preserve.

The ranch was originally named Rancho de los Picos after José Jesús Pico, a descendant of Santiago de la Cruz Pico who came with the Anza expedition in 1776, who homesteaded it and built the original adobe house in 1871.

In 1871, Purves moved from his home in Greene County and homesteaded the, along with his wife, Dorothy Abney, born May 14, 1826 in Hinds County, and their five surviving children, to the rural property.

Henry Blodgett, a trapper and hunter homesteaded and eventually gave part of his land to his hunter friend P. H. Roundtree with the stipulation that he build a $ 500 home.

Because of the " portability " provision of the January 2008 constitutional amendment, a homesteaded owner may now move up to $ 500, 000 of the " Save Our Homes " benefit from one Florida home to the next.

The plains where Grover and his friends homesteaded was known as the Pennsylvania Settlement.

Hysham slowly grew by a general process typical throughout the frontier where an initial commercial or transportation need would establish the site, which would then grow as settlers homesteaded nearby.

In 1882, Thomas Cooper and his wife homesteaded the area on the east side of town where hot springs water emerged.

But, his son, Edward Thompson Hilts settled in Erin Township where his son mayor William W. Hiltz was born, homesteaded, and raised.

The Forbes family homesteaded what is now Juanita Beach Park in 1876, and settled on Rose Hill in 1877.

** “ A Soldier's Tale ,” written by Alan Grant, art by Mike Collins, in Judge Dredd Annual 1988 ( 1987 )

While in the service, he was assigned to write for the Manila Freedom and Soldier's Letter.

The trilogy was completed in 1961, with A Soldier's Prayer.

On March 17, Booth learned that Lincoln would be attending a performance of the play Still Waters Run Deep at a hospital near the Soldier's Home.

Booth assembled his team on a stretch of road near the Soldier's Home in the attempt to kidnap Lincoln en route to the hospital, but the president did not appear.

* Smith, Joshua M. "" The Yankee Soldier's Might: The District of Maine and the Reputation of the Massachusetts Militia, 1800-1812 ," New England Quarterly LXXXIV no.

The original working title of the film was The Soldier's Wife.

Neil Jordan first drafted the screenplay for The Crying Game in the mid-1980s under the title The Soldier's Wife, but shelved the project after a similar film was released.

The film was known as The Soldier's Wife for much of the production, but Stanley Kubrick, who was a friend of Neil Jordan, counselled against the title saying that audiences would expect a war film.

Screenwriters Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North wrote most of the film based on two biographies, General Bradley's A Soldier's Story and Ladislas Farago's Patton: Ordeal and Triumph.

* Kennett, Lee, Sherman: A Soldier's Life, HarperCollins, 2001, ISBN 0-06-017495-1.

* Marszalek, John F., Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order, Free Press, 1992, ISBN 0-02-920135-7 ; " reissued with new preface ", Southern Illinois University Press, 2007.

Vonnegut also wrote a companion libretto to Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat, or A Soldier's Tale, which tells Slovik's story.

The Period of Division with its many tragedies and dramatic historical developments inspired many poets and gave rise to some Vietnamese masterpieces in verse, including the epic poem The Tale of Kiều ( Truyện Kiều ) by Nguyễn Du, Song of a Soldier's Wife ( Chinh Phụ Ngâm ) by Đặng Trần Côn and Đoàn Thị Điểm, and a collection of satirical, erotically charged poems by a female poet, Hồ Xuân Hương.

Vonnegut narrated his lyrics to Soldier's music.

October 1988 saw the release of Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale with the London Sinfonietta conducted by Kent Nagano.

Image: soldiers rest. jpg | Soldier's Rest ( 1769 )

With a spirit of rebellion Catawbans split with Lincoln County ; a spirited people united and fought a major polio epidemic in the 1940s ; an entrepreneurial spirit built a thriving economy ; a patriotic spirit resulted in the oldest continuing patriotic celebration in the US — the annual Soldier's Reunion in Newton ; an artistic spirit is reflected in our furniture artisans, music, quilting, pottery, etc.

The " Soldier's Boot Camp " follows the actors as they take preparation for their roles to an extreme ( 30 minutes )), " One Hour Over Tokyo " and " The Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor ", two History Channel documentaries along with " Super-8 Montage ", a collection of unseen Super-8 footage shot for potential use in the movie by Michael Bay's assistant, Mark Palansky ; " Deconstructing Destruction ", an in-depth conversation with Michael Bay and Eric Brevig ( of Industrial Light and Magic ) about the special effects in the movie and " Nurse Ruth Erickson interview " complete the extra features component.

Washington shared a 1982 Distinguished Ensemble Performance Obie Award for playing Private First Class Melvin Peterson in the Off-Broadway Negro Ensemble Company production A Soldier's Play which premiered November 20, 1981.

She cited another report that a Kitanemuk Indian referred to the site Campo del Soldado ( Soldier's Camp ), " which was where the soldiers stayed when they cut timber from a mountain they called Pinery Mountain, today's Frazier Mountain.

A Soldier's Story is a 1984 drama film directed by Norman Jewison, based upon Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning Off Broadway production A Soldier's Play.

A Soldier's Story was shot entirely in Arkansas.