land-speculator

The improvements alone, the land-speculator was ready to take his oath, were worth every cent of two thousand dollars.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

A queer collection of people who have settled on a derelict farm that was bought up and sold in small plots by a land-speculator.

The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

In fact, Henderson, the treaty-maker and land-speculator, whose purchase first gave the whites clear color of title to the valleys of the

The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 Theodore Roosevelt 1888

So, public opinion was in favor of its being an animal, though a harmless one; for there had been a land-speculator through the village a few weeks previously, who distributed circulars of a "Female Academy" for the accomplishment of young ladies.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) Various 1887

The Crown could always afford to undersell the private land-speculator, and might establish a permanent fund for the introduction of labour, by selling land at a low rate, AND RESERVING A RENT-CHARGE, IN THE SHAPE OF A LAND-TAX --

The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844

Roland did not require to be informed that a "tomahawk-improvement," as it was often called in those days, meant nothing more than the box of logs in form of a cabin, which the hunter or land-speculator could build with his hatchet in a few hours, a few girdled trees, a dozen or more grains of corn from his pouch-thrust into the soil, with perhaps a few poles laid along the earth to indicate an enclosed field; and that such improvements, as they gave pre-emption rights to the maker, were often established by adventurers, to secure a claim in the event of their not lighting on lands more to their liking.

Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

Methodist preacher, a Mormon, a land-speculator, a member of the "Native

Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet Frederick Marryat 1820