Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
Summer 2011
Citation
Great Plains Quarterly 31:3 (Summer 2011).
Abstract
Lisi Krall seeks to place homesteading and later public-land policies in the larger context of American efforts to digest the huge western land mass that the United States came to control through purchase and conquest. She employs an evolutionary economics framework to explain why things turned out the way they did.
Krall begins her book with a startling personal anecdote: in 1920 her grandfather, a young Wyoming homesteader, was shot and killed by a neighbor in a dispute over water rights. The dire consequences of his murder for the family's subsequent generations connect Krall intimately to the struggles of homesteaders.
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