Fifty Million Acres: Conflicts over Kansas Land Policy, 1854-1890
Entry/Object ID
L1997.1.29
Description
Fifty Million Acres: Conflicts over Kansas Land Policy, 1854-1890. Paul Wallace Gates, an important historian of disposal of public lands, attempts to explain Kansas history in term of functioning governmental policy, particularly Indian and land policies. He includes the activities of railroad executives, government officers, land buyers large and small, and vicitimized Native Americans. He also includes the struggles of squatters, the disposessed Indian tribes and cultural distances, misunderstandings and greed. Gates believes that Kansas clearly revealed the deficiencies of the allotment system that became central to the government's American Indian policy.
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Book
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Documentary Objects
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Category 08: Communication Objects
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Land use-Kansas-History . Public lands- Kansas- History, Survey History, Kansas
