Laura's family was one of many homesteaders.

劳拉的家人是众多自耕农之一。

Many poor and middle-class Americans moved and became homesteaders.

许多美国穷人和中产阶级搬家并成为自耕农。

His family were homesteaders, going back generations, scraping a living off the land.

他的家人都是自耕农，世世代代靠种地为生。

I had relatives who were homesteaders in North Dakota back in the 1860s and 1870s.

我有亲戚在 1860 年代和 1870 年代在北达科他州做自耕农。

He also worked to protect the rights of a group of very important Americans in our history: that is, homesteaders.

他还致力于保护我们历史上一群非常重要的美国人的权利：即自耕农。

Well, this was something of a political problem, but Harrison tried to fight for the rights of the homesteaders over the railroad.

嗯， 这是一个政治问题，但哈里森试图为自耕农争取铁路的权利。

I said goodnight and went on out, leaving him there moving his mind around with the ponderous energy of a homesteader digging up a stump.

我说了晚安，然后继续往外走，留下他在那里，用一个农夫挖树桩的笨重能量来回转动他的思绪。

I do remember seeing pictures – old pictures from the late 19th century that my father had of these relatives of ours that were homesteaders.

我确实记得看过照片——我父亲拥有的 19 世纪末的老照片，这些照片是我们这些亲戚的，他们是自耕农。

At length, however, both had to go, as the homesteaders and land companies came and fenced in the plain and desert with endless lines of barbed wire.

最后，然而，两人都不得不离开，因为农场主和土地公司来到平原和沙漠， 用无尽的带刺铁丝网围起来。

Many small homesteaders  and farm laborers were forced to migrate from the rural countryside to the cities or give up  their own small farms to work on the larger ones.

许多小农户和农民工被迫从农村迁移到城市，或者放弃自己的小农场去大农场工作。