HIST 2057 Lecture : The Closing Of The West Notes
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The closing of the west, 1865-1890, part ii. You would get 160 acres of land after you lived on it for 5 years. You would get a title for it but would own the title until you lived on it for 5 years. They eventually give out more land than the railroads ended up getting. 20% of gov land in west, 2,025,000 acres of land. Bonanza farms: there isn"t a lot of rain out there so farms could not have crops to sustain them. Other farms that were doing ok were buying peoples homesteads. You ended up with a few farms that were 100,000 acres: the people that own these giant farms don"t live on them, they live in. They higher managers for farm and they hire the works. This is not what the gov thought this was going to turn into: from frontier to factory. Frederick jackson turner, "the significance of the frontier in.
