Sentence examples for western settlement from inspiring English sources

The federal government encouraged western settlement by providing land to would-be settlers.

Separate galleries honor women in entertainment, in the rodeo arena, and in Western settlement and ranching.

In Ford's movie, as in real life, the story of Western settlement is the story of community-building.

Even before western settlement, according to the plaque, members of the Algonquin nation gathered there, 12 miles north of Manhattan, to barter their wares.

In addition, Upper Canada (i.e., the southern section) was joined to the Mississippi valley for purposes of administration, permanently blocking the prospect of American control of western settlement.

The Norse established two settlements, the Eastern Settlement, which was actually in the south, and the Western Settlement, which was to the north of that.

What does seem to have contributed to the abandonment of the Western Settlements, archaeologists said, is climate change.

The farm was part the Western Settlements, a community established around A.D. 1000 that grew to perhaps 1,500 people before the Norse abandoned the area around 1350, remaining in southern Greenland for another century.

Although some pioneers of western settlements in North America were fearless explorers, in reality the vast majority were immigrants from the Old World, vulnerable to the harsh conditions of the frontier while they attempted to "tame" a vast wilderness.

Recharge to the Trans-Pecos basins is spatially and temporally variable, and due to human impacts it has likely changed since pre-western settlement time (circa 1850s).

Model results also indicate that net infiltration may be higher under current vegetation regimes than in pre-western settlement conditions; the removal of thick dense grasslands in INFIL model simulations enhanced net infiltration by 48% or more.