1968 reprint of an award-winning study of the Illinois Central Railroad's land grant in Illinois and its effect on settlement within the state (including the encouragement of agriculture, town-site promotion, the kind of immigrants attracted by the railroad's advertising, and competition with the federal government in the disposal of property) as well as the early history of the State and of the Railroad. With a new introduction by the author critiquing some aspects of his work. Winner of Harvard's David A. Wells Prize. 374 pages with index.

Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work

History

Gates, Paul Wallace

Americas

Johnson Reprint Corp

This study addresses the treaty method of disposing of Indian lands, land grants to railroads, and railroad sales, settlement and tax policies. Disputes between squatter settlers and the railroads are also examined.

Fifty Million Acres

Ayer Co. Pub

This text focuses on the history of the development of law in relation to the public lands , the colonial land systems, the origin of the public domain, and the conflicting interests generating change in land policy from colonial times to the 20th century. As a special feature it discusses the legal aspects of mineral resources exploitation.

History of Public Land Law Development (Management of Public Lands in the U S Series)

Swenson, Robert W.

Arno Pr

The Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work

Harvard University Press

Nine revised essays on public land questions trace the development of policies governing the administration and alienation of U.S. public lands, describe ownership patterns that emerged, and land use.

Landlords and tenants on the prairie frontier;: Studies in American land policy,

Cornell University Press

A provision of the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 allowed Cornell University to acquire 500,000 acres of valuable timberland in northern Wisconsin. Although most land grant universities immediately sold the federal tracts that had been allocated to them, Cornell held the land to allow it to appreciate. While the university was guarding its rights as a trustee of this estate, dealing with the supervisors and tax collectors of several counties, and negotiating with lumbermen, it did not escape criticism for its role as an absentee landlord. As Paul Wallace Gates details in The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University, the university's perseverance paid off―the eventual sale of surface rights to the land yielded a five-million-dollar endowment and is regarded as one of the most successful episodes of land speculation in U.S. history.

The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University

Fall Creek Books

Fifty Million Acres: Conflicts over Kansas Land Policy, 1854-1890

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Land and Law in California present essays by Paul W. Gates, a foremost authority on American public lands history.

Land and Law in California: Essays on Land Policies (HENRY A WALLACE SERIES ON AGRICULTURAL HISTORY AND RURAL STUDIES)

Business & Money

Economics

Iowa State Pr

Book by Gates, Paul Wallace, Bogue, Allan G., Bogue, Margaret Beattie

The Jeffersonian Dream: Studies in the History of American Land Policy and Development (Historians of the Frontier and American West)

University of New Mexico Center for the American West

Bogue, Margaret Beattie

Univ of New Mexico Pr

Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University: A Study in Land Policy and Absentee Ownership

Wisconsin Historical Society

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