prove up on

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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carry out the improvements required to gain the patent on homesteaded land.

Quotations

1922

"At least it should take as long to get married as to prove up on a homestead," Jake remarked. . . .

1945

They had managed to prove up on a homestead .. .