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Richard Edwards offers a concise and colorful overview of our country’s successful experiment in populating the Plains with permanent settlers.
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1. Homesteaders
2. Origins of the Homesteading Idea
3. Moving to the Land in the Nineteenth Century
4. Settling In in the Nineteenth Century
5. Perils and Survival
6. Black Homesteaders
7. The Twentieth-Century Land Rush
8. Life on the Twentieth-Century Homestead
9. Homesteading Women
10. The Homesteaders’ Legacy
Acknowledgments
Suggested Readings
Index
About the author
Richard Edwards is director emeritus of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is author or coauthor of numerous books, including
The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration (Nebraska, 2023) and
Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History (Nebraska, 2017).
Summary
Richard Edwards offers a concise and colorful overview of our country’s successful experiment in populating the Plains with permanent settlers.
