"homesteader" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to refer to a person who lives on and cultivates a plot of land, especially one in the early days of the settlement of North America. For example, "The homesteader quickly built a small log cabin on the land and began to cultivate the soil for crops."
Settled in 1863 by Pleasant DeSpain, a homesteader, it was named DeSpain Junction and developed as a shipping point for local farm produce.
Norfolk, Virginia March 2, 2011 Fairbanks, Alaska John Meade Haines, (born June 29 , 1924 Norfolk, Va. died March 2, 2011, Fairbanks, Alaska) American poet and writer who created vivid and haunting images of his life in Alaska as a homesteader in dreamlike verse that drew on his experiences as a hunter, trapper, and resident of a self-built 3.7 × 4.9-m (12 × 16-ft) cabin in the wilderness.
It was renamed for Peter Lassen, a Danish-born explorer and homesteader in the region who guided settlers through the surrounding area in the mid-19th century.
He supported himself by varied occupations that included general household worker, hotel cook, laundryman, farm labourer, and homesteader.
A descendant of missionaries and educators, Benton was greatly influenced by his indomitable mother a professor's widow, pioneer woman school superintendent, and Montana homesteader who instilled in him the drive to excel.
The origins of the name Moscow are disputed; some hold that the town was named by Jonathan Neff, a homesteader who had lived near the hamlet of Moscow, Pennsylvania, and who liked the romantic associations of the name, while others believe that the name comes from the Nez Percé masco, meaning "flax," which grew abundantly in the region.
Eyer grew up in Los Angeles but has deep roots in Montana; his great-grandfather was a homesteader here in the late nineteenth century, and his grandfather packed mules in the Bitterroot Valley.
Born in southern Illinois, a virtual Southern territory at the time, he lived in Chicago as a young man before becoming a homesteader in rural South Dakota.
Otto Neumiller, his father, had emmigrated from Germany in 1881, & had built himself up from a homesteader into the most prosperous man in the area.
On Christmas Eve, the teachers saw Isadore Bolten, a young Russian-Jewish homesteader and cobbler, who taught the boys regular classes in his trade, laboring up the hill on his skis, carrying a mail pouch full of Christmas presents from Auburn; Dorothy estimated that it weighed at least fifty pounds.
