31.   The descendants of the European settlers endured on the land, weathering hardships that established a context for a formidable school of American literature.

32.   The European settlers who came to this region more than a century ago struck up an oddly conflicted relationship with the native peoples.

33.   The fascination did not stop European settlers and many of their descendants from trying to exterminate the breed.

34.   The Indian theme is another strategy, evoking, as it does, the history of oppression by European settlers and the lingering need for restitution.

35.   Then the European settlers arrived.

36.   They survived the onslaught of European settlers and mechanized agriculture mainly because of geology.

37.   When the European settlers first arrived, salmon spawned by the million in rivers from eastern Maine to Connecticut.

38.   Wild turkeys occupied all of what is now New York State south of the Adirondacks when the first European settlers arrived.

39.   Wildlife experts estimate that as many as half a million bald eagles ranged across North America when European settlers arrived here.

40.   Afrikaners are the white descendants of early Dutch and other European settlers who ruled the country during four decades of apartheid policies.