Introduction -- Colonial Precedents:

C. W. Alvord, The Mississippi Valley in British Politics (2 vols., Cleveland, 1917);
C. M. Andrews, "Land Systems in the American Colonies," Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy, Vol. II (1923), pp. 556-60;
J. C. Ballagh, "The Land System in the South," Publications of the American Historical Association, 1897;
V. F. Barnes, "Land Tenure in English Colonial Charters of the Seventeenth Century," Essays in Colonial History Presented to Charles McLean Andrews (New Haven, 1931), pp. 4-40;
P. W. Bidwell and J. I. Falconer, History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860 (Washington, 1925), pp. 49-66, 70-6;
O. P. Chitwood, A History of Colonial America (New York, 1931);
Melville Egleston, "The Land System of the New England Colonies," Johns Hopkins University Studies, 4th Series;
A. C. Ford, "Colonial Precedents of Our National Land System as It Existed in 1800," University of Wisconsin Bulletin No. 352 (Madison, 1910);
L. C. Gray, History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860 (Washington, 1933), Chap. XVII;
C. P. Nettels, Roots of American Civilization (New York, 1938);
H. L. Osgood, The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (3 vols., New York, 1904-07), Vol. I, Chap. XI; Vol. II, Chap. XI;
St. G. L. Sioussat, "The Breakdown of the Royal Management of Lands in the Southern Provinces, 1773-1775," Agricultural History, Vol. III (1929), pp. 67-98.

From the Revolution to 1850:

T. B. Abernethy, Western hands and the American Revolution (New York, 1937);
H. B. Adams, "Maryland's Influence. upon Land Cessions to the United States," Johns Hopkins University Studies, 3rd Series, No. 1 (1885) ;
C. W. Alvord, The Mississippi Valley in British Politics (2 vols., Cleveland, 1917);
J. C. Ballagh, "Southern Economic History: Tariff and Public Lands," American Historical Association, Annual Report, 1898, pp. 223-63;
B. W. Bond, The Civilization of the Old Northwest (New York, 1934);
G. S. Callender, Selections from the Economic History of the United States, 1765-1860 (Boston, 1909), Chaps. XII and XIII;
H. J. Carman, Social and Economic History of the United States (Vol. I, Boston, 1930);
E. Channing, A History of the United States (6 vols., New York, 1905-1926), Vol. III, Chap. XVII; Vol. IV, Chap. XI; and Vol. V, Chaps. II and III;
K. W. Colgrove, "The Attitude of Congress toward the Pioneers of the West from 1789 to 1820," Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. VIII (1910), pp. 3-129; Vol. IX (1911), pp. 196-302;
Milton Conover, The General Land Office (Baltimore, 1923);
R. S. Cotterill, "The National Land System in the South, 1803-1812," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XVI (1930), pp. 495-506;
Thomas Donaldson, The Public Domain: Its History (Washington, 1884);
H. U. Faulkner, American Economic History (New York, 1935), Chap. IX;
Cardinal Goodwin, The Trans-Mississippi West, 1803-1853 (New York, 1922);
B. H. Hibbard, A History of the Public Land Policies (New York, 1924);
B. H. Hibbard, "The Settlement of Public Lands in the United States," International Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. LXI (1916), pp. 97-117;
R. T. Hill, The Public Domain and Democracy (New York, 1910);
J. F. Jameson, The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement (Princeton, 1926);
Merrill Jensen, "The Articles of Confederation: A Re-interpretation," Pacific Historical Review, Vol. VI (1937);
Merrill Jensen, "The Creation of the National Domain, 1781-1784," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XXVI (1939), pp. 325-43;
J. B. McMaster, History of the People of the United States (7 vols., New York, 1883-1913), Vol. Ill, Chap. XVI and Vol. IV, Chap. XXXIII;
F. L. Paxson, History of the American Frontier, 1763-181)3 (Boston, 1924);
Louis Pelzer, "The Public Domain as a Field for Historical Study," Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. XII (1914), pp. 568-78;
U. B. Phillips, American Negro Slavery (New York, 1918), Chaps. X-XII;
R. E. Riegel, America Moves West (New York, 1930);
R. M. Robbins, "Preemption: A Frontier Triumph," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XVIII (1931), pp. 331-49;
R. M. Robbins, "Horace Greeley: Land Reform and Unemployment, 1837-1862," Agricultural History, Vol. VII (1933), pp. 18-41;
A. M. Sakolski, The Great American Land Bubble (New York, 1927);
F. A. Shannon, Economic History of the People of the United States (New York, 1934);
G. M. Stephenson, The Political History of the Public Lands from 1840 to 1860 (Boston, 1917);
P. J. Treat, The National Land System, 1785-1820 (New York, 1910);
P. J. Treat, "The Public Lands and the Public Land Policy," Cyclopedia of American Government (New York, 1914), Vol. Ill, pp. 93-7;
P. J. Treat, "Origin of the National Land System under the Confederation," American Historical Association Annual Report, Vol. I (1905), pp. 231-39;
F. J. Turner, Rise of the New West (New York, 1906);
F. J. Turner, The United States, 1830-1850 (New York, 1935) ;
J. C. Welling, The Land Politics of the United States (New York, 1888);
R. G. Wellington, The Political and Sectional Influence of the Public Lands, 1828-1842 (Cambridge, 1914);
R. G. Wellington, "The Tariff and Public Lands from 1828-1833," American Historical Association, Annual Report, Vol. I. (1911), pp-179-85;
A. P. Whitaker, The Spanish-American Frontier (New York, 1927).

Part II

The West Welcomes the Corporation, 1850-1862;

V. E. Chatelain, "The Public Land Officer on the Northwestern Frontier," Minnesota History, Vol. XII (1931), pp. 379-89;
A. H. Cole, "Statistical Background of the Crisis of 1857," Review of Economic Statistics, Vol. XII (1930), pp. 170-80;
D. A. Clark, The West in American History (New York, 1937), Chaps. XVII and XVIII;
K. W. Colgrove, "The Attitude of Congress Toward the Pioneers of the West, 1820-1850," Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. IX (1911), pp. 196-302;
K. Coman, Economic Beginnings of the Far West (2 vols., New York, 1925) ;
Thomas Donaldson, The Public Domain: Its History (Washington, 1884) ;
P. W. Gates, "The Disposal of the Public Domain in Illinois, 1848-1856," Journal of Economic and Business History, Vol. Ill (1931), pp. 216-30;
P. W. Gates, "The Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work," Harvard Economic Studies, Vol. XLII (Cambridge, 1935) ;
P. W. Gates, "The Railroads of Missouri, 1850-1870," Missouri Historical Review, Vol. XXVI (1931-32), pp. 126-42;
P. W. Gates, "Land Policy and Tenancy in the Prairie Counties of Indiana," Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. XXXV (1939), pp. 1-26;
P. W. Gates, "Southern Investments in Northern Lands Before the Civil War," Journal of Southern History, Vol. V (1939), pp. 155-85;
P. W. Gates, "Large Scale Farming in Illinois, 1850-1870," Agricultural History, Vol. VI (1932), pp. 14-25;
Cardinal Goodwin, The Trans-Mississippi West, 1803-1853 (New York, 1922);
B. H. Hibbard, A History of Public Land Policies (New York, 1924), Chap. VIII;
Murray Kane, "Some Considerations of the Safety-Valve Doctrine," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XXIII (1936), pp. 169-88;
H. A. Kellar, (ed.), Solon Robinson, Pioneer and Agriculturist: Selected Writings, 1825-1845 (2 vols., Indianapolis, 1936);
E. C. Kirkland, A History of American Economic Life (New York, 1932), Chaps. IV-VII;
T. J. Middleton, "Andrew Johnson and the Homestead Law," Sewannee Review, Vol. XV (1907), pp. 316-20;
F. L. Paxson, History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893 (Boston, 1924) ;
Louis Pelzer, "Squatter Settlements," Palimpsest, Vol. XIV (1933), pp. 77-84;
W. J. Peterson, "Population Advance to the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1830-1860," Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. XXXII (1934), pp. 312-53;
T. A. Rickard, The Copper Mines of Lake Superior (New York, 1905);
T. A. Rickard, A History of American Mining (New York, 1932);
Robert Riegel, America Moves West (New York, 1930);
C. J. Ritchey, "Claim Associations and Pioneer Democracy in Early Minnesota," Minnesota History, Vol. IX (1928), pp. 85-95;
R- M. Robbins, "Horace Greeley: Land Reform and Unemployment, 1837-1862," Agricultural History, Vol. VII (1933), pp. 18-41;
E. D. Ross, "Horace Greeley and the West," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XX (1933), pp. 63-74;
A. M. Sakolski, The Great American Land Bubble (New York, 1932), Chaps. XII and XIII;
}. B. Sanborn, "Political Aspects of Homestead Legislation," American Historical Review, Vol. VI (1900), pp. 19-37;
Joseph Schafer, The Social History of American Agriculture (New York, 1936);
Joseph Schafer, A History of Agriculture in Wisconsin (Madison, 1932);
Joseph Schafer, The Wisconsin Lead Region (Madison, 1932);
B. F. Shambaugh, "Frontier Land Clubs or Claims Associations," American Historical Association, Annual Report, Vol. I (1900), pp. 69-84;
F. A. Shannon, Economic History of the People of the United States (New York, 1934)1 Chap. VII;
G. M. Stephenson, Political History of the Public Lands, 1840 to 1862 (Boston, 1917);
F. J. Turner, The Frontier in American History (New York, 1920), Chaps. IV-VII;
W. P. Webb, The Great Plains (New York, 1931).

Part III

The Corporation Triumphs, 1862-1901

B. F. Andrews, The Land Grant of 1862 and the Land Grant Colleges, U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin 13 (1918);
Stuart Chase, Rich Land, Poor Land (New York, 1936);
V. E. Chatelain, "The Public Land Officer of the Northwestern Frontier," Minnesota History, Vol. XII (1931), pp. 379-89;
D. E. Clark, The West in American History (New York, 1937), pp. 403-625;
Everett Dick, The Sod-House Frontier, 1854-1890 (New York, 1937);
W. J. Donald, "Land Grants for Internal Improvements in the United States," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. XIX (1911);
Thomas Donaldson, The Public Domain: Its History (Washington, 1884);
H. H. Dunham, "Some Crucial Years of the General Land Office, 1875-1890," Agricultural History, Vol. XI (1937), pp. 227-40;
J. T. Ganoe, "The Beginnings of Irrigation in the United States," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XXV (1938), pp. 59-78;
J. T. Ganoe, "The Desert Land Act in Operation, 1877-1891," Agricultural History, Vol. XI (1937), pp. 142-57;
P. W. Gates, "A Fragment of Kansas Land History: the Disposal of the Christian Indian Tract," Kansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. VI (1937), pp. 227-40;
P. W. Gates, "The Homestead Law in an Incongruous Land System," American Historical Review, Vol. XLI (1936), pp. 652-81;
P. W. Gates, The Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work (Cambridge, 1934);
L. C. Gray, "Land Speculation," Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences, Vol. IX (New York, 1933), pp. 64-8, 70;
L. C. Gray, "National Land Policies in Retrospect and Prospect," Journal of Farm Economics, Vol. XIII (1931), pp. 231-45;
A. B. Hart, "The Disposition of Our Public Lands," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. I (1887), pp. 169-83, 251-4;
J. B. Hedges, "Promotion of Immigration to the Pacific Northwest by Railroads," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XV (1928), pp. 183-203;
B. H. Hibbard, A History of Public Land Policies (New York, 1924), Chaps. XVII-XXI;
B. H. Hibbard, "Homestead," Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, Vol. VII (1932), pp. 436-41;
B. H. Hibbard, "Land Grants: The United States," Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, Vol. IX (1933), pp. 32-6;
John Ise, The United States Forest Policy (New Haven, 1920);
Dorothy Lampen, Economic and Social Aspects of Federal Reclamation (Baltimore, 1930);
W. C. MacLeod, The American Indian Frontier (New York, 1928);
T. M. Marshall, "The Miners' Laws of Colorado," American Historical Review, Vol. XXV, pp. 426-40;
Elwood Mead, Rise and Future of Irrigation in the United States, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Yearbook, 1899, pp. 591-612;
J. B. Milam, "The Opening of the Cherokee Outlet," Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. IX (1931); Vol. X (1932), pp. 115-37;
Ernest Osgood, The Day of the Cattleman (Minneapolis, 1929);
E. M. Parker, "The Southern Pacific Railroad and Settlement in Southern California," Pacific Historical Review, Vol. VI (1937), pp. 103-19;
F. L. Paxson, "The Pacific Railroads and the Disappearance of the Frontier in America," American Historical Association, Annual Report, 1907, Vol. I, pp. 107-18;
F. L. Paxson, History of the American Frontier, 1J63-1893 (Boston, 1924);
Louis Pelzer, "A Cattleman's Commonwealth on the Western Range," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol.XIII (1926),pp.30-49;
Louis Pelzer, The Cattleman's Frontier (Glendale, California, 1936);
Gifford Pinchot, "How Conservation Began," Agricultural History, Vol. XI (1937), pp. 255-65;
J. B. Rae, "Commissioner Sparks and the Railroad Land Grants," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XXV (1938), pp. 211-30;
W. F. Raney, "The Timber Culture Acts," Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Proceedings, Vol. X (1919-20), pp. 219-29;
T. A. Rickard, A History of American Mining (New York, 1932);
R. M. Robbins, "The Federal Land System in an Embryo State: Washington Territory, 1853-1890," Pacific Historical Review, Vol. IV (1935), pp. 356-75;

R. M. Robbins, "The Public Domain in the Era of Exploitation, 1862-1901," Agricultural History, Vol. XIII (1939), pp. 97-108;
E. D. Ross, "Squandering Our Public Land," American Scholar, Vol. II (1933), pp. 77-86;
L. B. Schmidt, "The Agricultural Revolution in the Prairies and the Great Plains of the United States," Agricultural History, Vol. VIII (1934), pp. 169-95;
F. W. Seymour, "Our Indian Land Policy," Journal of Land and Public Utility Economics, Vol. II (1926), pp. 93-108;
F. A. Shannon, "The Homestead Act and the Labor Surplus," American Historical Review, Vol. XLI (1936), pp. 637-51;
A. E. Sheldon, Land Systems and Land Policies in Nebraska (Lincoln, 1936);
C. H. Shinn, "Land Laws of the Mining Districts," Johns Hopkins University Studies, 2nd Series (1884);
H. A. Smith, "The Early Forestry Movement in the United States," Agricultural History, Vol. XII (1938), pp. 326-46;
L. O. Stewart, Public Land Survey: History, Instructions, Methods (Ames, Iowa, 1935);
Arnold Tilden, The Legislation of the Civil War Period Considered as a Basis of the Agricultural Revolution in the United States (Los Angeles, 1937);
F. J. Turner, The Frontier in American History (New York, 1920), Chap. I;
W. P. Webb, The Great Plains (New York, 1931), Chap. IX;
F. P. Wirth, The Discovery and Exploitation of the Minnesota Iron Lands (Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1937).

Part IV

The Government Forces Conservation, 1901-1936

J. H. Anderson, "Jurisdiction over Federal Lands within the States," North Carolina Law Review, Vol. VII (1929), pp. 299-306;
F. M. Black-mer, "The West, Water and Grazing Laws," Survey Graphic, Vol. XXVI (1937), p. 387;
F. W. Blackmar, "The Mastery of the Desert," North American Review, Vol. CLXXXII (1906), pp. 676-88;
R. M. Boening, "History of Irrigation in the State of Washington," Washington Historical Quarterly, Vol. IX (1918), pp. 259-76; Vol. X (1919), pp. 21-45;
Stuart Chase, Rich Land, Poor Land (New York, 1936);
Marion Clawson, "The Administration of Federal Range Lands," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. LIII (1939), pp. 435-53;
A. R. Cordova, "The Taylor Grazing Act," New Mexican Business Review, Vol. IV (1935), pp. 193-201;
A. P. Davis, "Development of the Colorado River," Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CXLIII (1929), pp. 254-63;
C. A. Dykstra (ed.), "Colorado River Development and Related Problems," American Academy of Political and Social Science, Annals, Vol. CXLVIII (1930), pp. 1-42;
J. T. Ganoe, "The Desert Land Act Since 1891," Agricultural History, Vol. XI (1937), pp. 266-77;
J. T. Ganoe, "The Origin of a National Reclamation Policy," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XVIII (1931), pp. 34-52;
P. W. Gates, "American Land Policy and the Taylor Grazing Act," Land Policy Circular, October 1935, pp. 15-37;
L. C. Gray, "National Land Policies in Retrospect and Prospect," Journal of Farm Economics, Vol. XIII (1931), pp. 231-45;
L. C. Gray, "Our Land Policy Today," Land Policy Review, Vol. I (1938), pp. 3-8;
B. H. Hibbard, A History of Public Land Policies (New York, 1924), Chaps. XXII-XXVIII;
John Ise, The United States Forest Policy (New Haven, 1920);
John Ise, The United States Oil Policy (New Haven, 1926);
Dorothy Lampen, Economic and Social Aspects of Federal Reclamation (Baltimore, 1930);
A. E. Parkins and J. R. Whitaker (eds.), Our Natural Resources and Their Conservation (New York, 1936);
Gifford Pinchot, "How Conservation Began in the United States," Agricultural History, Vol. XI (1937), pp. 255-65;
H. A. Smith, "The Early Forestry Movement in the United States," Agricultural History, Vol. XII (1938), pp. 326-46;
W. J. Trimble, "The Influence of the Passing of the Public Lands," Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CXIII (1914), pp. 755-67;
F. J. Turner, The Frontier in American History (New York, 1920);
G. S. Wehrwein, "A Land Policy as a Part of an Agricultural Program," Journal of Farm Economics, Vol. VII (1935), pp. 289-304;
G. S. Wehrwein, "The Second Conservation Crusade," Journal of Land and Public Utility Economics, Vol. XII (1936), pp. 421-22;
C. W. Wrighi, "The Significance of the Disappearance of Free Land in our Economic Development," American Economic Review Supplement, Vol. XVI (1926), pp. 265-71;
R. S. Yard, Our Federal Lands (New York, 1928).