Time Present, Time Past by Bill Bradley

Time Present, Time Past by Bill Bradley

Author:Bill Bradley [Bradley, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-49194-7
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-04-03T16:00:00+00:00


After the Homestead Act, which gave a settler a hundred and sixty acres of public land if he farmed it, the corruption and inefficiency continued:

The use of “dummy entrymen” permitted speculators, or mining, timber, or cattle companies to acquire land under falsified claims. In a variety of ways—huge grants to subsidize railroad construction, grants to states, the distribution of land warrants to veterans, the sale of tracts made available by further reductions of Indian reservations—much desirable land was taken from the reach of homesteaders. Moreover, much of the land made available to them was beyond the line of semi-aridity, in regions where the 160-acre farm and the methods of conventional farming could produce little except frustration.



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