Landlords and tenants on the prairie frontier studies in American land policy
Gates, Paul Wallace,1901-
Ithaca, [N.Y.] London Cornell University Press
c1973
Includes bibliography and index
Tenants of the log cabin.--The role of the land speculator in western development.--Southern investments in northern lands before the Civil War.--Land policy and tenancy in the prairie counties of Indiana.--Land policy and tenancy in the prairie states.--Hoosier cattle kings.--Cattle kings in the prairies.--Frontier landlords and pioneer tenants.--Frontier estate builders and farm laborers
Land tenure