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The Jeffersonian dream : studies in the history of American land policy and development / Paul W. Gates ; edited by Allan G. and Margaret Beattie Bogue.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Historians of the frontier and American WestPublication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1996.Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 172 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0826316999
  • 9780826316998
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD191 .G37 1996
Contents:
Introduction: Paul Wallace Gates / Allan G. and Margaret Beattie Bogue -- Memoir / Paul W. Gates -- 1. The Role of the Land Speculator in Western Development -- 2. Frontier Estate Builders and Farm Laborers -- 3. The Homestead Act: Free Land Policy in Operation, 1862-1935 -- 4. California's Embattled Settlers -- 5. Conclusion to The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University: A Study in Land Policy and Absentee Ownership -- 6. Introduction to Fifty Million Acres: Conflicts over Kansas Land Policy, 1854-1890 -- 7. From Individualism to Collectivism in American Land Policy -- 8. The Intermountain West against Itself -- 9. Canadian and American Land Policy Decisions, 1930 / Paul Wallace Gates and Lillian F. Gates -- Publications of Paul W. Gates.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks HD191.G37 1996 1 Available 33710001253215

"Published in cooperation with the University of New Mexico Center for the American West."

Includes bibliographical references.

"Publications of Paul W. Gates": p. 167-172.

Introduction: Paul Wallace Gates / Allan G. and Margaret Beattie Bogue -- Memoir / Paul W. Gates -- 1. The Role of the Land Speculator in Western Development -- 2. Frontier Estate Builders and Farm Laborers -- 3. The Homestead Act: Free Land Policy in Operation, 1862-1935 -- 4. California's Embattled Settlers -- 5. Conclusion to The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University: A Study in Land Policy and Absentee Ownership -- 6. Introduction to Fifty Million Acres: Conflicts over Kansas Land Policy, 1854-1890 -- 7. From Individualism to Collectivism in American Land Policy -- 8. The Intermountain West against Itself -- 9. Canadian and American Land Policy Decisions, 1930 / Paul Wallace Gates and Lillian F. Gates -- Publications of Paul W. Gates.