Fifty million acres : conflicts over Kansas land policy, 1854-1890 / Paul Wallace Gates ; foreword by Allan G. Bogue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gates, Paul W. (Paul Wallace), 1901-1999.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use--Kansas--History.

Land use.

Public lands--Kansas--History.

Public lands.

History.

Kansas.

Physical Description:

xvi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Norman, Okla : University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

Summary:

The disposal of public lands in Kansas was a defining event in American history. The dispossession of Indian tribes settled on reservations along the eastern boundary of the territory, conflicts between settlers from the North and the South over land claims and slavery, the activities of land-hungry railroads, and an array of manipulative and corrupt politicians all helped make the early development of Kansas the greatest failure in the history of the American territorial system. In Fifty Million Acres. Paul Wallace Gates focuses on the elimination of Indian title, the efforts of railroads to obtain the ceded lands, public land sales, the homestead era, and the later conflicts between the railroads and Kansas agrarians. This new edition of a classic study includes a foreword by Allan G. Bogue.

Notes:

"Oklahoma paperbacks edition."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0806129913

OCLC:

36767605