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“The year was 1873 and all about was the evidence of boom and bust, shattered dreams, foolish ambition, depredation, shame, greed, and cruelty . . .” Onto t

"Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors b

Discusses the history of the Homestead Act, what states were involved, how people lived and crossed the land to open the Western United States.

At the close of the Civil War, the Federal government undertook a sweeping reform of land tenure in the South with the passage of the Southern Homestead Act of

Our Documents is a collection of 100 documents that the staff of the National Archives has judged most important to the development of the United States. The en