Homesteading the Plains

Homesteading the Plains PDF

Author: Richard Edwards

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2017-09-01

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0803296797

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"​A study that draws on a new dataset to reexamine established critical interpretations of the Homestead Act, including the overall success of homesteading, fraudulent claims, Indian land dispossession, the participation of women in homesteading, and the formation of both farms and communities in the homesteading process"--