A former schoolteacher and temperance organizer, she came to Alberta in 1903 as a homesteader. The war party attack another farm, burning the homesteader to death and seizing two horses. By the mid-1880s, Freeman also claimed to have been the first homesteader in the nation. Among them was bachelor homesteader Almanzo Wilder. After brief stints as a cowboy and a homesteader, he returned to mining in 1896. Gary Brannon, is a peaceful homesteader living a quiet existence with his father Sam. Jim Averell was another homesteader who lived about southwest of Johnson County. Si were named after local homesteader Josiah "Uncle Si" Merritt. The town was named after James Hobbs, a homesteader there in 1907. The community was named after Climax, Minnesota, the home town of early homesteader Christ Fuglestad. Dunlap is named after Joseph Dunlap, the first homesteader in the area. The town was named after the brand "KC" used by its earliest homesteader, John Nolan. In 2013 he published a chapbook called "The Homesteader". The area was originally called Schupferville for Rupert Schupfer, an original homesteader in the area. It was named in honour of George Bentley, an early homesteader.