Railroads and Land Grant Policy


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This is a reprint of a previously published book. It deals with the effect of 19th century railroad land grants on economic efficiency.







Railroad Land Grants from Canals to Transcontinentals


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This monograph addresses the legal history of railroad land grants, including treatment of mineral rights.










Railroads, Lands, and Politics


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Includes information on the Central Pacific Railroad, homestead law and homesteaders, Kansas Pacific Railroad, lobbyists, Northern Pacific Railroad, Pacific Railway Commission of 1887, immigrants, population expansion, Santa Fe Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, etc.




Railway Land Grants in Iowa


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Translating Property


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Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the US in 1948 battles over property rights have remained intense. This text shows how contending groups reinterpret the meaning of property to uphold their conflicting claims to land.