Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of
homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox
scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity
between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part
of our national narrative and most scholars' harshly negative and
dismissive treatment. Homesteading the Plains reexamines old data
and draws from newly available digitized records to reassess the
current interpretation's four principal tenets: Homesteading was a
minor factor in farm formation, with most western farmers
purchasing their land; most homesteaders failed to prove their
claims; the homesteading process was rife with corruption and
fraud; and homesteading caused Indian land dispossession. Using
data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the nineteenth
century, Homesteading the Plains demonstrates that the first three
tenets are wrong and the fourth only partially true. In short, the
public's perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than
the one scholars have constructed. Homesteading the Plains provides
the basis for an understanding of homesteading that is startlingly
different from the current scholarly orthodoxy.
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