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- catalog contributor b2841284.
- catalog coverage "United States Armed Forces Recruiting, enlistment, etc. Mexican War, 1846-1848.".
- catalog coverage "United States Armed Forces Recruiting, enlistment, etc. War with Mexico, 1845-1848.".
- catalog created "c1990.".
- catalog date "1990".
- catalog date "c1990.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1990.".
- catalog description ""More than 550,000 veterans, their widows, and minor heirs received land -- not cash -- from the federal government as a reward for faithful military service in all the U.S. wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War. This book relates how a determined lobby of War of 1812 veterans persuaded Congress in the 1850's to grant bounties of up to 160 acres of public land as retroactive payment. This became the federal government's first major entitlement program for veterans. Only about 5 percent of the veterans who received bounty land grants actually used them to obtain a parcel of public land; instead, most sold their land bounty for cash. New York brokers arranged for the resale of land warrants to private agents at land office towns in the Midwest. The agents in turn often used the warrants as a form of credit to settlers. As the author explains, the sixty million acres (an area roughly equivalent to the size of the state of Wyoming) transferred in this fashion had a strong effect on the nation's public land system and its settlement patterns in the years leading up to the Civil War" -- Book jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-217) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 222 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Sixty million acres.".
- catalog identifier "0873384210 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sixty million acres.".
- catalog issued "1990".
- catalog issued "c1990.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Sixty million acres.".
- catalog spatial "United States Armed Forces Recruiting, enlistment, etc. Mexican War, 1846-1848.".
- catalog spatial "United States Armed Forces Recruiting, enlistment, etc. War with Mexico, 1845-1848.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "333.1/6 20".
- catalog subject "Bounties, Military United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "HD240 .O24 1990".
- catalog subject "Land grants United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Land titles United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Public lands United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Veterans United States History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""More than 550,000 veterans, their widows, and minor heirs received land -- not cash -- from the federal government as a reward for faithful military service in all the U.S. wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War. This book relates how a determined lobby of War of 1812 veterans persuaded Congress in the 1850's to grant bounties of up to 160 acres of public land as retroactive payment. This became the federal government's first major entitlement program for veterans. Only about 5 percent of the veterans who received bounty land grants actually used them to obtain a parcel of public land; instead, most sold their land bounty for cash. New York brokers arranged for the resale of land warrants to private agents at land office towns in the Midwest. The agents in turn often used the warrants as a form of credit to settlers. As the author explains, the sixty million acres (an area roughly equivalent to the size of the state of Wyoming) transferred in this fashion had a strong effect on the nation's public land system and its settlement patterns in the years leading up to the Civil War" -- Book jacket.".
- catalog title "Sixty million acres : American veterans and the public lands before the Civil War / James W. Oberly.".
- catalog type "text".