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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Homestead Act"”.
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"Over the Horizon of the Years": Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Little House Books
… as a unified account of the effects of the Homestead Act of 1862 on both the pioneer and the frontier: the lure of the West, the struggle to comply with the terms of the Homestead Act, and the building of a frontier society.</p><p>The third essay, "'I Have Always Lived in Little Houses': …
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The Removal of the Winnebago Indians from Wisconsin in 1873-74
… remnant in 1873-74. This non-treaty-abiding faction of the tribe was forcibly taken to Nebraska where the treaty-abiding faction had a reservation.</p> <p>The Wisconsin Winnebago had four reasons for resisting removal. 1) Based on their experience with prior removals, they knew that many of …
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WRITING NEXT TO THE WEST: A SPATIAL CONSIDERATION OF WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN WEST
Mary Clearman Blew and Judy Blunt are contemporary women writers of the American West. Both women grew up on ranches in Montana but left in adulthood. Despite leaving, each woman maintains significant intellectual and emotional connections to the land and culture of her youth in her writing. Blew's …
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WRITING NEXT TO THE WEST: A SPATIAL CONSIDERATION OF WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN WEST
Mary Clearman Blew and Judy Blunt are contemporary women writers of the American West. Both women grew up on ranches in Montana but left in adulthood. Despite leaving, each woman maintains significant intellectual and emotional connections to the land and culture of her youth in her writing. Blew's …