Chronicles the history of the Homestead Act of 1862 which offered settlers up to one hundred sixty acres of land in the American Plains and invoked a horde of prospective homesteaders including new immigrants, women, and freed slaves.
year: 2005
call number/section: 978, 978.02
subjects: frontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.), juvenile literature, homestead law, history, 19th century, public lands, land settlement, west (u.s.), history, juvenile literature