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Show 828 HISTORY OF PUBLIC LAND LAW DEVELOPMENT Union Oil Co. case, 731 United States telegraph, on Jackson's land policy, 172 Upper Colorado River Basin, 694 Upper Mississippi mines, 704 Uranium boom, 751 Utah, admission to Union, 312, 314 grants, education and irrigation, 314 Van Buren, Martin, land sales, 176, 178 preemption, 235 Vermont, 56, 286 Veterans and reclamation lands, 693-694 Virginia, land laws, early, 35-39 land claims, early, 49 cession of land claims, 52 Virginia-Kentucky land compact, 286-287 John Locke-James Blair report, 36 military bounties, 251-252 military tract, 255-257, 258 Walker, Isaac, 358-359 War with Mexico, 83 Warren Act, 672 Washington, admission to Union, 313 giants, education, 313 Water Power Act, 29 Webb, Walter, Enlarged Homestead Act, 508 Webster-Hayne debate, 10-11 See Foote Resolution Weeks Act, 595 Western Governors Conference, 516 Wilderness Act, 763 Williamson, J. A., Desert Land Act, 639 free timber, 553 irrigation, 638 national forests proposed, 548 survey system, 421-422 timberland sale, 548 timber protection, 548, 549 timber trespass, 469, 546-548, 554 Wilson, John, Graduation Act, 185-187, 190-191 Swamplands, 322-323, 324 Wilson, Joseph F.( land payments, 245 Swamplands, 333 Wisconsin, admission to Union, 300 grants, education, 300 Federal grants, management, 337-338 Wyoming, 314 Withdrawal Act, 509 Withdrawals, public land, 667-668 coal land, 726-729 oil land, 732-740 Taft's 1909 proclamation. See Taft origins, 28 wildlife, 758-759 timberland, 565 unused, 458 Vazoo frauds, 54-55 Young, Richard M., preemption, 240 military bounties, 271-272 |