Someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it.
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The nester's horse was in a little corral back of the house.
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His gaze shifted to the nester and carried with it implacable hostility.
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But the second shot also hit the old nester in the breast.
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But the reference did not embarrass the nester in the least.
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The nester pushed her gently into the arms of her guest.
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The nester smiled, but there was no gayety in his eyes.
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Just before swinging from the saddle, Jim turned to the nester.
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I don't have much stuff, being more of a wanderer than a nester.
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Healy took in the nester with an eye of jade.
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The suspicious eyes of the nester passed over Beaudry and came back to Dingwell.
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Probably some nester who never saw a hundred dollars all in one place until recently.
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But as the nester grew better he perceived that she was withdrawing herself from him.
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The bullet caught the nester in the breast and knocked him back against the wagon.
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The nester's attention was focused indolently upon the hills.
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We're filing to protect ourselves before some nester outfit turns up at our front door.
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Another nester homesteaded there, old Joe Yeager answered casually, chewing tobacco with a noncommittal air.
