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Homesteading the Plains ~ Homesteading the Plains Toward a New History reconsiders the history of homesteading and overturns the longheld scholarly view regarding the subject While the public has generally viewed homesteading as being one of the shining successes in American history scholars have viewed the enterprise as tainted by illicit activity and as an overall failure
Homesteading the Plains Toward a New History Richard ~ Homesteading the Plains is a mustread for Great Plains scholars as well as for those interested in the American West and in GIS applications It is a muchneeded call for a revitalization of homesteading scholarship and an example of how dramatically technology and historians increased access to data can shift the historiography
Homesteading the Plains Toward a New History by Richard ~ 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’ Homesteading 2018 Nebraska Book Award
Homesteading the Plains University of Nebraska Press ~ Homesteading the Plains 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
Homesteading the Plains Audiobook by Richard Edwards ~ Homesteading caused Indian land dispossession Using data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the 19th century Homesteading the Plains demonstrates that the first three tenets are wrong and the fourth is only partially true In short the public’s perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than the one scholars have constructed
Homesteading Research Center for Great Plains Studies ~ “Homesteading the Plains is a provocative wellinformed and strongly argued analysis of the role of homesteading in settling the Great Plains from 1863 to 1900 Throughout the book the factual evidence is enriched by the stories of individual lives which are also embedded in the records
Homesteading the Plains Toward a New History Journal of ~ Focusing primarily on the Great Plains from 1863 to 1900 they insist unlike most contemporary historians that homesteading was a significant factor in the formation of farms that homesteaders more often than not proved up their claims that homesteading was not especially corrupt and that while homesteaders contributed to pushing Indians off their land in some cases this was not universally true
Homesteading the Plains – The Faith of Laura Ingalls Wilder ~ It is about the administration of the Homestead Act of 1862 which figures largely in the Little House books especially the last four The Homestead Act provided one hundred and sixty acres of land free from the Federal Government to anyone who would pay a small filing fee build a house on the land raise crops and live there for five years
About Us Homestead Records ~ Homesteading the Plains Toward a New History 2017 is available through the University of Nebraska Press or Amazon Attractively and accurately written this book demolishes much conventional wisdom about homesteading that it was a minor factor in settlement that most claims never proved up that fraud was rife
Homesteaders Farming the Great Plains ~ • In 1862 Homestead Act opened the Great Plains to settlers—giving 160 acres of land to any person who would live there for 5 years • Land west of the Missouri River belonged to the Great Sioux Nation by treaty of 1868
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