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1836 D. Webster Priv. Corr. (1857) II. 21 I hope you will leave some faithful ‘land-lookers’ to explore for you in your absence.

1840 Knickerbocker 16 206 Another class of operators..became popularly known as ‘land-lookers’. These met you at every turn, ready to furnish ‘water power’, ‘pine-lots’, ‘choice farming tracts’ or any thing else, at a moment's notice.

1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 6 These blunders called into action another class of operators, who became popularly known as ‘land-lookers’.

1891 R. A. Alger in Voice (N.Y.) 15 Oct. What woodsmen call a ‘land-looker’, i.e. a timber expert whose business it is to locate pine timber land in Michigan.

1893 Scribner's Mag. June 695/1 My first day's experience as a ‘Cruiser’ or ‘Landlooker’.

1900 E. Brucken N. Amer. Forests 81 A peculiar class of people variously known as woodsmen, cruisers, landlookers, whose business it is to give information as to the existence of pine timber, its location, amount, value.

1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail xvi. 116 This is the usual method of procedure adopted by land-lookers everywhere.