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Most visual media will go for smaller numbers of children, to save on budget, screen focus and the difficulties of working with child actors.
 
Perhaps the most frequent use of the [['''Determined Homesteader's Children]]''' in fiction is to have one befriend [[The Drifter]], inducing the stranger to help the homesteaders against whatever hazard the farm is facing.
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* The ''Dear America'' series has multiple examples in books such as ''Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie'' and ''West to a Land of Plenty''.
* ''[[American Girl]]'' has the Swedish immigrant families in the Kirsten books.
* [[John Steinbeck]]'s ''The Leader of the People'' has this as the central conflict. What happens when the [[Determined Homesteader's Children]] grow up, with children of their own? Thanks to their parents' grit and determination in carving out a life for them, don't have to face the same hardships and may even become arrogant and dismissive of their sacrifices.
* Karl Oskar and Kristina's children in ''[[The Emigrants]]''.
* The book "Shane" introduces Robert Macpherson Starrett; "Too much name for a boy. I make it Bob." The story is told as his grown-up recollections of the events of his childhood.
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