英语词汇claim jumper的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	claim jumper
词源	claim jumper. One who illegally takes possession of anoth- er’s land claim. Wrote Philip Johnston in Lost and Living Cities of the California Gold Rush (1948): “Occasionally, a claim jumper was hauled into court; but the practice of locating an- other man’s ground became distinctly hazardous, it did not oc- cur with the frequency that many writers of Western fiction would have us believe.”
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