Other settlers brought huge herds of sheep to compete with cattle for the grass, and the sheep always won.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

The settlers had plans to remove water from the area and in the eighteen eighties developers began digging drainage canals.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Again,Indians were forced to watch angrily as white settlers began moving onto lands they had agreed to give up.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Anti-slavery settlers in Kansas felt they could not get fair treatment from either the president or the new governor.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Under great pressure from white settlers, the government took land from the Indians and opened it to settlement.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

As white settlers moved west, they began to hunt the animal for skins to sell in eastern markets.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Many years later, settlers used the tar,or asphalt, on the tops of their houses to keep water out.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

Since there were few settlers in Oregon, Britain and the United States agreed to occupy the territory jointly.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

But it was often difficult. To protect their towns,the settlers often had to employ people who were expert in the use of firearms.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Settlers in the American west also had a problem faced by many people in the world today.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

The National Park Service says early colonial settlers and land developers thought the Everglades had little value.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

He opened it to settlers. President Cleveland signed into law two bills he believed would improve government.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

In sixteen thirty, Puritan settlers from England established Boston in what would become the state of Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

New trouble threatened to break out in the territory of Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

The government built a series of bases in the New Mexico territory to protect the settlers and goods moving along the Santa Fe Trail.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

They called it the Free Soil Party, because they believed in free land for free settlers.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

As America grew and white settlers moved west, many felt a great need for good transportation.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

They say the threats are a result of actions the United States government began more than fifty years ago, and settlers began even earlier.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Settlers in both new territories would have the right to decide the question of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Free State settlers gathered in the town of Lawrence and organized a defense force.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

They often tried to destroy the wagon trains carrying settlers to California and Oregon.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

These settlers began to build small towns when they found areas they liked.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Groups in the South organized quickly to help pro-slavery settlers move to Kansas.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Soon,he recognized that the settlers would need more supplies and weapons to survive.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

But he does represent the spirit of early settlers in the American West.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

And more people came to the town. Some were settlers, storekeepers and miners.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

In the early nineteen hundreds, a story about attacks on white settlers moving into Indian territory explained, "The Sioux had the wagon-train surrounded and the soldiers buffaloed."

VOA: special.2009.02.15