Last
month Kathy Nitsch did a guest post Free
federal land primer on The Legal Genealogist blog, http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/2012/05/31/free-federal-land-primer/.
In 1962, the U.S. Public
Land
This 104-page annotated timeline has
information on almost every piece of significant legislation affecting U.S.
public lands — including something called the Helium Act(!) — plus fascinating
historical details about how the land sales were handled at various times ...
Read the full post and do check out the mentioned Historical Highlights of Public Land Management: issued on the
sesquicentennial of the founding of the first organized system of public land
management (1962)
Given the
complexity of land research and yet how important it can be to pursuing our
ancestors, do check out this freely available digital volume.
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