Paul Wallace Gates

The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University

A Study in Land Policy and Absentee Ownership

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The late Paul Wallace Gates was John Stambaugh Professor Emeritus of History at Cornell University. He was the author of books including The Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work and The History of Public Land Law Development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780801477638
• ISBN-10: 0801477638
• Artikelnr.: 33620781

Autorenporträt

Paul Wallace Gates

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Preface to the Second Edition1. Land Policy and the Agricultural-College
Act
2. The States Dispose of Their Land Scrip
3. Ezra Cornell Founds a University
4. Hazards of Land Speculation in Wisconsin
5. Cornell Acquires Wisconsin Pine Lands
6. The Pine-Land Ring
7. The Chippewa Lumber Industry
8. Tax Warfare
9. Cornell against the Railroad Lobby
10. Sales of Pine Land
ConclusionBibliography
Index