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Sixty million acres : American veterans and the public lands before the Civil War / James W. Oberly.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HD 240 .O24 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oberly, James Warren, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public lands--United States--History--19th century.
- Public lands.
- Bounties, Military--United States--History--19th century.
- Bounties, Military.
- Land grants--United States--History--19th century.
- Land grants.
- Land titles--United States--History--19th century.
- Land titles.
- United States--Armed Forces--Recruiting, enlistment, etc--Mexican War, 1846-1848.
- United States.
- Veterans--United States--History--19th century.
- Veterans.
- Recruiting and enlistment.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, ©1990.
- Contents:
- Bounty land grants of the Mexican War era
- Acres for old men: The United Brethren of the War of 1812 and the politics of land grants
- "Best evidence": Obtaining a land warrant from the pension bureau
- Westward who? The warrantees and their bounties
- Prices, markets, and fairness in the trading of warrants
- Land sharks and loan sharks, squatters and sawyers: The users of land warrants in the upper Mississippi Valley
- Land warrant grants in historical perspective
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-217) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Oberly, James Warren, 1954- Sixty million acres.
- ISBN:
- 0873384210
- 9780873384216
- OCLC:
- 21376750
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