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... by legislatures, courts, or even constitutions. They also promoted a new discussion of how values within the United States differed from those in Europe--where land was scarce and served as the foundation for aristocratic regimes and sharp class differences. The squatter was a ubiquitous figure on every frontier...

... on the Plains--cattlemen seized control of the range by fencing pastures and water holes and evicting squatters. When homesteaders resisted this exclusion, government authorities dispatched their rural constabularies--the Texas Rangers and the North-West Mounted Police--to protect a closed but embattled range...

... of those who held squatting licenses in the larger Port Phillip District were Scots, and in its Western District region two-thirds of the squatters were from Scotland is unattributed, but is likely drawn from Kiddle, Men of Yesterday , 14 , 517 . 15. 1836 Census of the Port Phillip District...

... of the late nineteenth century such as Wovoka and Sitting Bull. Whereas Winnemucca shows how cattle culture dehumanized the Paiutes, Burton's novel The Squatter and the Don valorizes the vaqueros . Although explicitly racist toward the Diegueño (Kumeyaay), Burton inadvertently describes possibly one...

... Supreme Court, no. 9443, California State Archives [hereafter CSA], Sacramento 3 William O. Russell , ed., History of Yolo County, California: Its Resources and its People (Woodland, Cal.: City of Woodland, 1940 ), 65 (quote) Donald J. Pisani , " Squatter Law in California...

... 8 , 1860 , vol. 19 ; Oct. 31 – Dec. 31 , 1860 , vol. 20 ; Sept. 26 , 1858 , vol. 17 ; Mar. 14 , 16 , 1859 , vol. 18 , Edwards Diaries. Hosmer hired himself out to Edwards in 1858, and by 1860 he was farming “his own” property as either a tenant or squatter. The 1860 federal...

... A. Brodribb , Recollections of an Australian Squatter (Melbourne: Queensberry Hill Press, 1976 ), 33 13 James Backhouse , A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies (London: Hamil¬ ton, Adams, and Co., 1843 ), 27 Max Angus , Simpkinson de Wesselow, Landscape...

... to slave survival. From Slaves to Squatters, part of Frederick Cooper s seminal study of coastal East Africa s labor history, constitutes an important exception. Cooper recognized the exslave s dilemma as a farmer without a claim on land ownership. He argued that a person s ability to negotiate access...

... established his Blacksnake Hills post along the lower Missouri, in the northwestern corner of the emerging state. Although beyond white settlement and still designated Indian country, the lure of productive farmland and proximity to the waterway enticed many squatters, so much so that William Clark...

... Clay and Werner Troesken argue that profit maximization largely explains squatters location decisions on Spanish and Mexican land grants in California. Three chapters address issues of race and labor markets. In "Did the Black-White Income Gap Close During the Late Nineteenth Century?" An- Book Reviews...

... viability in areas such as the central highlands, so far from the "corn cultivator," "subsistence ethic," and semi-proletarian/squatter lifestyle of the lowlands. Regardless, the question needs to be posed rather than silenced with a series of historical bromides on local pacifist exceptionalism...

... squatters location decisions on Spanish and Mexican land grants in California. Three chapters address issues of race and labor markets. In "Did the Black-White Income Gap Close During the Late Nineteenth Century?" An- ...

... cultivator," "subsistence ethic," and semi-proletarian/squatter lifestyle of the lowlands. Regardless, the question needs to be posed rather than silenced with a series of historical bromides on local pacifist exceptionalism. And in answering the question with his own two decades of research, Edelman remains...

... size fell in the eighteenth century, and a class of transients and squatters roamed the land. Yet with declining prospects, the dumping of "extra people" in America, and increasing volitional migration, even the poorest could make it in the backcountry (179). On the eve of the Ameri? can Revolution...

... s focus on economic development obscures the political conversations of the early nineteenth century. Politics pops up from time to time discussions of Spanish land claims, of squatters rights and federal land sales, and of violent clashes between Whigs and Democrats. But a more complete discussion...

... : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2000 ), 3 , 113 – 14 ; C. Power to P. Foelsche, Feb. 28, 1889, Borroloola Police Station Letterbook, NTRS 2210/P1, NTAS. 40. “The Squatter's Troubles,” Northern Territory Times , Dec. 25 , 1896 ; “Expert Opinion of the Wandi Goldfield and Other Parts...

... Spanish land law as a non-policy that owing to irregularities, frauds, and delays led natives to content themselves with remaining on the land as simple squatters. The tome, Colonial Administration, an annotated bibliography compiled by the librarian of Congress at the request of henry Cabot lodge...

... settlement. Stock farmers, commonly called squatters, seeking fresh natural pastures 39 Agricultural History Winter to accommodate their multiplying flocks of sheep, first pioneered in this region, which bore the official name of Port Phillip district and was administratively incorporated into New South...

... and John C. Fremont, who owned two of themost famous Mexi can land grants, to those less familiar such as Chief Solano, who ruled over the Indians of the Sonoma Valley, and Charles Robinson, a leader of the Sacramento squatter riot of 1850. In turning fromwater to land, I am simply exchanging one...

... and pasture relied on natural rainfall. William Henry Lane was a representative of a later phase of settlement, which commenced after World War I and was often, but not always, underpinned by state support for returned soldiers. Lane was a returned soldier (Figure 3).7 In the 1830s pastoralists, or squatters...