Roy M. Robbins, Our Landed Heritage: The Public Domain, 1776-1936 (1942).

CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART 1. THE SETTLER BREAKS THE WAY
  1. FOUNDING THE SYSTEM
  2. THE SETTLER BUYS ON CREDIT
  3. SECTIONALISM
  4. SPECULATION AND PANIC
  5. PREEMPTION: A FRONTIER TRIUMPH
  6. LAND FOR THE LANDLESS
  7. FREE LAND AND FREE SOIL
PART II. THE WEST WELCOMES THE CORPORATION
  1. LURING THE EUROPEAN
  2. INDUSTRY MOVES WESTWARD
  3. INDUSTRIAL-AGRARIAN ALLIANCE
  4. SLAVOCRACY OPPOSES FREE LAND
  5. BOOM TIMES AND PANIC
PART III. THE CORPORATION TRIUMPHS
  1. THE REPUBLICAN VICTORY
  2. THE DOMAIN THROWN WIDE-OPEN
  3. EXPLOITATION UNDER THE SETTLEMENT LAWS
  4. SETTLERS VS. RAILROADS
  5. MONOPOLY CHALLENGED
  6. REVISION AT LAST
PART IV. THE GOVERNMENT FORCES CONSERVATION
  1. RISE OF CONSERVATION
  2. ROOSEVELT FORCES THE ISSUE
  3. THE WEST DEFIANT
  4. TAFT PUSHES ON
  5. CONCILIATING THE WEST
  6. DEMISE OF THE OLD DOMAIN
SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ILLUSTRATIONS

  • THE LAND CLAIMS OF THE THIRTEEN STATES
  • INDIAN CESSIONS IN THE NORTHWEST, 1789-1816
  • INDIAN CESSIONS IN THE SOUTH, 1830-1834
  • LAND GRANTS TO STATES AND CORPORATIONS FOR RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION
  • PREEMPTION FRAUDS
  • "AND WHAT IS TO BECOME OF US?"
  • ORIGINAL LAND ENTRIES, 1800-1934
  • DISPOSITION OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN TO 1915
  • CONSERVATION AND RECLAMATION TO 1917
  • "PROMETHEUS BOUND"
  • THE WESTERN DOMAIN, 1936
  • IRRIGATION PROJECTS AND FEDERAL DAMS, 1936