Homesteading The Plains: Toward A New History

?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--

• | Author: Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, Rebecca S. Wingo
• | Publisher: University Of Nebraska Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 0803296797
• | ISBN-13: 9780803296794