Crossword-Solution: WESTS 5 letters, 64 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The Wests had always stood by their ships, she urged; had always brought their ships in to the ports intended or had gone down with their ships in the effort.

Thus separated by hundreds of miles of intervening wilderness from the more civilized communities, the conquerors of the first American "West," prototypes of the conquerors of succeeding "Wests," inevitably struck out their own ways of life and developed their own customs.

Martie and Rodney walked down South California Street, into the town's nicest quarter, and passed the old-fashioned wooden houses, set far back in bare gardens: the Wests' with its wooden palings; the Clifford Frosts', with a hooded baby carriage near the side door; and the senior Frosts', a dark red house shut in by a dark red fence.

Old Hezron Mears had never given any sign of life to the luckless Wests; had perhaps hardly been conscious of including them in the carefully drawn will which, following the old American convention, scrupulously divided his hoarded millions among his kin.

Then, later on, it was found that Ralph was only an adopted son of the Wests, who had taken him from a poorhouse.