government-fostered

Updated: July 15, 2025

But much of the frontier of Australia is occupied by men of means who had behind them government aid and a semi-paternal encouragement in their adventures. The same is true in part of the government-fostered settlement of Western Canada. It was not so with the American West. Here was not the place of the rich man but of the poor man, and he had no one to aid him or encourage him.

Emerson Hough - The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West