Great Plains Studies, Center for

 

Date of this Version

Fall 2010

Document Type

Article

Citation

Great Plains Quarterly 30:4 (Fall 2010).

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Copyright © 2010 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska.

Abstract

Brian Q. Cannon has established himself as one of America's preeminent historians of agriculture and the modern West. Reopening the Frontier will only add to this well-deserved reputation. In it, he examines the rejuvenation of western homesteading- the idea of the federal government providing cost-free land to settlers willing to live on and cultivate it-after World War II. As Cannon demonstrates, the challenges of homesteading in 1950s Washington or Oregon were often just as severe as those of trying to "prove up" a claim in 1870s Nebraska or Kansas.

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