Homestead Act

Bibliography

Articles

• Anderson, Hannah L. “That Settles It: The Debate and Consequences of the Homestead Act of 1862.” History Teacher 45, no. 1 (November 2011): 117–137.
• Gates, Paul Wallace. “The Homestead Law in an Incongruous Land System.” American Historical Review 41 (July 1936): 652–681.

Books

• Cross, Coy F. Go West, Young Man! Horace Greeley's Vision for America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
• Dick, Everett. The Lure of the Land: A Social History of the Public Lands from the Articles of Confederation to the New Deal. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970.
• ———. The Sod-House Frontier, 1854–1890: A Social History of the Northern Plains from the Creation of Kansas and Nebraska to the Admission of the Dakotas. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.
• Edwards, Richard, Jacob K. Friefeld, and Rebecca S. Wingo. Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
• Gates, Paul Wallace. History of Public Land Law Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968.
• Hibbard, Benjamin Horace. A History of the Public Land Policies. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965.
• Ilisevich, Robert D. Galusha A. Grow: The People's Candidate. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988.
• Ise, John. Sod and Stubble. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996.
• Kohl, Edith Eudora. Land of the Burnt Thigh. Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986.
• Opie, John. The Law of the Land: Two Hundred Years of American Farmland Policy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
• Painter, Nell Irvin. Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1986.
• Robbins, Roy M. Our Landed Heritage: The Public Domain, 1776–1970. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976.
• Rölvaag, O. E. Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie. New York: Harper and Row, 1965.
• Shannon, Fred A. The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860–1897. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1989.
• Stewart, Elinore Pruitt. Letters of a Woman Homesteader. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2006.
• Villard, Henry. Lincoln on the Eve of '61: A Journalist's Story. New York: Knopf, 1941.

Websites

• “Homestead Act (1862).” 100 Milestone Documents website. http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=31. /annotation>
• “The Homestead Act of 1862.” The National Archives “Teaching with Documents” website. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/homestead-act/.
• “Homestead National Monument of America.” National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, website. http://www.nps.gov/home/heritagecenter.htm.