31.   Early settlers owned several shotguns because they wanted one gun in each room of their tiny homes.

32.   Early American settlers are not to blame for the leaden pumpkin pie that started it all.

33.   Early settlers were busy carving out a living from the wilderness and had little time for decoration.

34.   Early settlers were obsessed with harnessing the water for safety and progress.

35.   Early settlers worked the railroad.

36.   Early American settlers brought their European styles, were influenced by Native American and Mexican apparel, and created new garments to suit the needs of the developing culture.

37.   Early settlers hunted them as cattle-stealing vermin, pitting Dutch guns against their poison arrows.

38.   Early Spanish settlers reported seeing the birds feasting on whale carcasses washed ashore in Monterey.

39.   Early European settlers molded the landscape around the belief that Platonic geometrical forms had divine properties.

40.   Early European settlers, in contrast, hated and feared the killer whale, which had a reputation as a vicious predator.