Homesteading the Plains : Toward a New History.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (270 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Competing Visions of Our Homesteading Past -- 2. Recalculating Homesteading's Reach and Success -- 3. Evolving Views on Homesteading Fraud -- 4. Estimating the Extent of Fraud -- 5. Homesteading and Indian Land Dispossession -- 6. Women Proving Up Their Claims -- 7. Mapping Community Formation -- 8. Envisioning a New History of Homesteading -- Appendix 1: An Annotated Review of GLO Circulars,1862- 1904 -- Appendix 2: Sources for Chapter 5 Graphs and Maps -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.