History of the Great American FortunesModern Library, 1936 - 732 páginas For contents and other editions, see Author Catalog. |
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... land warrants , and were allowed to tender these as payment.1 The company then lei- surely disposed of its land to settlers at an enormous profit . Nearly all of the land companies had banking adjuncts . The poor settler , in order to ...
... land warrants , and were allowed to tender these as payment.1 The company then lei- surely disposed of its land to settlers at an enormous profit . Nearly all of the land companies had banking adjuncts . The poor settler , in order to ...
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... lands in good faith , and they would " sell out " to them their " rights " to land on which they had never paid a cent , nor intended to pay a cent . Or , if the nature of the land was doubtful , they would postpone all in . vestigation ...
... lands in good faith , and they would " sell out " to them their " rights " to land on which they had never paid a cent , nor intended to pay a cent . Or , if the nature of the land was doubtful , they would postpone all in . vestigation ...
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... land were seized under color of law . NO MORE PUBLIC LANDS FIT FOR FARMING A recent Government report presented the facts as follows : on June 30 , 1930 , there were nearly 179,000,000 acres of land subject to entry under the Homestead ...
... land were seized under color of law . NO MORE PUBLIC LANDS FIT FOR FARMING A recent Government report presented the facts as follows : on June 30 , 1930 , there were nearly 179,000,000 acres of land subject to entry under the Homestead ...
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PREFACE TO THE 1936 EDITION | 19 |
PREFACE TO THE 1909 EDITION | 25 |
CHAPTER I | 31 |
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