Reopening the Frontier: Homesteading in the Modern West

by Brian Q. Cannon

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The offer of free farmland after World War II may not have sparked the same stampede that it did in frontier days, but, as Brian Cannon shows in this path-breaking study, postwar homesteading continued to shape the modern West in important ways.

Between 1946 and 1966, the Bureau of Reclamation opened up over 3,000 farms on irrigated public lands in the West to returning servicemen. Although involving fewer people than those flocking to western...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0700616578

ISBN13:9780700616572

Release Date:April 2009

Publisher:University Press of Kansas

Length:318 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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