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"This booklet is issued during the Sesquicentennial of the establishment of the Bureau of Land Management and the first system of public land management, organized in 1812. This year, 1962, also marks the centennial of the passage of the once-vital Homestead Act of 1862. This booklet contains d...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: United States. Bureau of Land Management (Author)
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962.
Subjects:
Land settlement > United States > History > Statistics.
Public lands > United States > History > Statistics.
Homestead law > United States.
Colonisation intérieure > États-Unis > Histoire > Statistiques.
Terres publiques > États-Unis > Histoire > Statistiques.
Biens de famille (Droit) > États-Unis.
Homestead law.
Land settlement.
Public lands.
United States.
History.
Statistics.
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Summary:"This booklet is issued during the Sesquicentennial of the establishment of the Bureau of Land Management and the first system of public land management, organized in 1812. This year, 1962, also marks the centennial of the passage of the once-vital Homestead Act of 1862. This booklet contains data on the number and total acreage of homestead entries for all public land States from 1868 to 1961. The material was compiled from records of the Bureau of Land Management of the Department of the Interior"--Page 1.
Item Description:Cover title.
"United States Department of the Interior. Steward L. Udall, Secretary. Bureau of Land Management. Karl S. Landstrom, Director"--Cover.
"O-624719"--Page 28.
Physical Description:28 pages : charts ; 15 x 24 cm + errata
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (page 28).