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White Settlement

American  

noun

  1. a town in N Texas.


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Winthrop and his cohort began the large-scale white settlement of New England.

From The Wall Street Journal

The scientific findings of Suzanne Simard that trees are linked into vast underground networks inform Powers’ novel about white settlement of the American continent.

From Los Angeles Times

The White Settlement church formed a volunteer security team in response to that law.

From Salon

Long before white settlement and Lewis and Clark tramped through the area now known as Missoula, the Séliš and Qĺispé buffalo hunters gathered in the place where the Blackfoot and the Clark Fork Rivers meet to plan and reconnoiter, and to tell stories of their dangerous hunts.

From New York Times

Muir arrived in California in 1868, after years of wandering and barely two decades after the Gold Rush opened the floodgates to white settlement of California.

From Los Angeles Times