proved-up

Updated: May 25, 2025

He may be a thief and a liar and a proved-up rogue in every other way; but as for fearing to let him sleep about the house, or fearing to let him cook his master's food, or fearing to let him carry firearms well! Perhaps, it is conceit, or maybe just ordinary foolishness. It is not fear!

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East

First it was a mineral claim; then he banked the future on timber, and when he got tired waiting for stumpage to soar, he put up a dinky sawmill to cut his own trees. He was doing well, for him, getting out ties for a new railroad it was down in Oregon when he saw the chance to trade for a proved-up homestead.

Ada Woodruff Anderson - The Rim of the Desert