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Show BIBLIOGRAPHY 775 gressional Globe, 1833-1873, and the Congressional Record, 1873-__References to statutes have been made to the Statutes at Large. The Census Reports have been constantly at hand. Most essential for any study of the management and disposal of the public lands as part of the economic development of the United States is the great collection of data brought together in Historical Statistics of the United States. Colonial Times to 1957 (Washington, 1960). Students of the history of the West and public land states find indispensable the Territorial Papers of the United States, edited by Clarence Edwin Carter. The 26 magnificent volumes in print bring the record down through Florida and the volumes on Iowa and Wisconsin are well under way. I have made use of many newspapers in my previous studies and have carried over some of the citations to this work. For the period of Horace Greeley's connection with the New York Tribune that paper is indispensable for an understanding of public land problems. The index of the New York Times makes that paper most useful for the later years. The role of the public land states in administering the land granted them is second only to that of the Federal government in the history of public lands. I have used the manuscript records of Illinois, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, and California. Early published reports of state land administering agencies are brief and not particularly illuminating; in the late 19th and 20th centuries the reports are more useful. In the preparation of a number of specialized studies of the operation of public land policies in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and California I made use of numerous manuscript collections in institutional hands and worked through the early deed, mortgage, and probate records of 75 counties, somewhat to the mystification of local abstractors and county officials. Some of the results of this work have been summarized in this study and reference has been made to these earlier studies. To list all of them here and also in footnotes would take too much space. Periodicals A number of trade journals and a house organ were used fairly intensively for periods when their sponsors were intensely concerned about legislation under consideration or existing land policies. The most important of these were the American Cattle Producer, Denver, 1919-__; American Forests, various names, Washington, 1895-__; Lumber Trade Journal, Chicago, 1882-1931; National Wool Grower, Salt Lake City, 1911-__; Northwestern Lumberman, Chicago, 1873-1898; Reclamation Era, Washington, 1908-__. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertations, Master's Theses, and Manuscript Studies Too much cannot be said of the high quality of some of the studies here listed. They are well worthy of publication. A number of dissertations brought to my attention too late for use have been listed because they obviously belong here. Abbott, Phillis. "The Development and Operation of an American Land System to 1800," Doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1959. Alexander, Thomas Glen. "The Federal Frontier: Interior Department Financial Policy in Idaho, Utah, and Arizona, 1863-1896," Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1965. Allen, R. H. "The Economic History of Agriculture in Monterey County, California, during the American Period," Doctoral dissertation, University of California at Berkeley, 1934. Angel, Arthur D. "Political and Administrative Aspects of the Central Valley Project of California," Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1944. |