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"Of Berry Pickers, Shanty Boys, and the Jack Pine Bird: Patterns of Set" by Rose Lockwood Moore
The provisions of the Homestead Act of 1863 (U.S. Congress 1862a) required a settlement pattern of dispersed single families on small tracts of land, which, in...
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