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The lure of the land; a social history of the public lands from the Articles of Confederation to the New Deal [by] Everett Dick.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press [1970]Description: xii, 413 p. illus., facsims., maps, plates. 24 cmISBN:
  • 0803207255
  • 9780803207257
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD216 .D5
Contents:
Land Precedents of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- The Early Nineteenth-Century Land Program -- Surveying -- Doing a Land-Office Business -- Squatters and Pre-emption -- Lands of the Mexican Cession -- The Diggings -- The Pre-emption Law in Action -- The Fight for Free Land -- Free Homes for the Millions -- Internal Improvement Lands -- Timber and the Public Domain -- The Day of the Speculator -- Free Grass, the Cattleman's Paradise -- The Range Wars -- Town Building on the Public Lands -- "Run for Your Land" -- Beyond the 100th Meridian -- Saving the Remnants of Our National Resources -- Conservation -- A House Divided Against Itself.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks HD216.D5 1970 1 Available 33710001050363

Bibliography: p. 367-388.

Land Precedents of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- The Early Nineteenth-Century Land Program -- Surveying -- Doing a Land-Office Business -- Squatters and Pre-emption -- Lands of the Mexican Cession -- The Diggings -- The Pre-emption Law in Action -- The Fight for Free Land -- Free Homes for the Millions -- Internal Improvement Lands -- Timber and the Public Domain -- The Day of the Speculator -- Free Grass, the Cattleman's Paradise -- The Range Wars -- Town Building on the Public Lands -- "Run for Your Land" -- Beyond the 100th Meridian -- Saving the Remnants of Our National Resources -- Conservation -- A House Divided Against Itself.