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Landlords and tenants on the prairie frontier ; studies in American land policy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gates, Paul W. (Paul Wallace), 1901-1999
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, [1973]
Subjects:
Land tenure > Middle West > History.
Middle West > Public lands > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Tenants of the log cabin
  • The role of the land speculator in western development
  • Southern investments in northern lands before the Civil War
  • Land policy and tenancy in the prairie counties of Indiana
  • Land policy and tenancy in the prairie states
  • Hoosier cattle kings
  • Cattle kings in the prairies
  • Frontier landlords and pioneer tenants
  • Frontier estate builders and farm laborers.