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Show ABSTRACT of dry farm homesteads for 1916, Homestead Act of 640 acres, of steads 320 which United States in their and quick ers of Their istically suited to they contrary and that they for grazing last homestead The acts been two homestead is that the conditions in the to the home of sig of consistently congressional sponsors consensus Raising leading historians have policy of these appraisal fault the to them. were land public and the Stock provided the were 1909, which provided acres, nificance passed by Congress. harsh of Enlarged Homestead Act The measures and acts support were unreal semiarid West, that basic principles of conservation, pushed through Congress by rapacious were western interests. This dissertation offers of these judgments; that assumption under these on But the acts. larged homestead acts ciples, is open to nothing else. were irrigable second it to proceeds judgment, repugnant in this had been preceded by many developments contrary, question--as shown in dry challenge first the the on homesteaders failed tha.Yl succeeded more As the no an that these conservation to prin oversimplification, study, impressive the and dry farm iv if measure well-publicized farming techniques; and by opening lands to development under this en system of non |
