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Homesteading the Plains : Toward a New History /
"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 begin by noting the striking disparity between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrativ...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Homesteading the Plains : |b Toward a New History / |c Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, and Rebecca S. Wingo. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Competing Visions of Our Homesteading Past -- 2. Recalculating Homesteading's Reach and Success -- 3. Evolving Views on Homesteading Fraud -- 4. Estimating the Extent of Fraud -- 5. Homesteading and Indian Land Dispossession -- 6. Women Proving Up Their Claims -- 7. Mapping Community Formation -- 8. Envisioning a New History of Homesteading -- Appendix 1: An Annotated Review of GLO Circulars,1862-1904 -- Appendix 2: Sources for Chapter 5 Graphs and Maps -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a "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 begin by noting the striking disparity between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrative and most scholars' harshly negative and dismissive treatment. The book ns reexamines old data and draws from newly available digitized records to reassess the current interpretation's four principal tenets: homesteading was a minor factor in farm formation, with most Western farmers purchasing their land; most homesteaders failed to prove up their claims; the homesteading process was rife with corruption and fraud; and homesteading caused Indian land dispossession. Using data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the nineteenth century, Homesteading the Plains demonstrates that the first three tenets are wrong and the fourth only partially true. In short, the public's perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than the one scholars have constructed. | ||
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| 700 | 1 | |a Friefeld, Jacob K., |e author. | |
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