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Land And Law In The Age Of Enterprise: A Legal History Of Railroad Land Grants In The Pacific Northwest, 1864-1916, Sean Kammer
Land And Law In The Age Of Enterprise: A Legal History Of Railroad Land Grants In The Pacific Northwest, 1864-1916, Sean Kammer
Sean Kammer
Federal land subsidies to railroad corporations comprised an important part of the federal government’s policies towards its western land domain in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. In all, Congress granted over a hundred million acres to railroad corporations to subsidize construction of a transcontinental railway network. Long after the last such grant in 1871, these land grants continued to incite political contests in Congress and state legislatures and legal disputes in communities across the West. By the end of the century, railroad corporations had become manifestations not just of the threatening growth of corporate power in the United …
Book Review: Larry Haeg, Harriman Vs. Hill: Wall Street's Great Railroad War, Sean M. Kammer
Book Review: Larry Haeg, Harriman Vs. Hill: Wall Street's Great Railroad War, Sean M. Kammer
Sean Kammer
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"No Trespassing": Railroad Land Grants, The Right Of Exclusion, And The Origins Of Federal Forest Conservation, Sean M. Kammer
"No Trespassing": Railroad Land Grants, The Right Of Exclusion, And The Origins Of Federal Forest Conservation, Sean M. Kammer
Sean Kammer
The Forest Management Act of 1897 established a management model for public lands that, for the most part, remains intact. It embodies a balancing of control and conservation of forest resources such as timber, minerals, and forage with provisions for the exploitation of those resources for private gain. This article explores the historical context in which this landmark legislation arose. It examines the role of large railroad companies, particularly those that received extensive land subsidies, in first challenging the long-standing custom of timber as an open-access resource in the American West. By enforcing their right of exclusion against timber trespassers …
Book Review: John N. Mack, Bucking The Railroads On The Kansas Frontier: The Struggle Over Land Claims By Homesteading Civil War Veterans, 1867-1876, Sean M. Kammer
Sean Kammer
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Public Opinion Is More Than Law: Popular Sovereignty And Vigilantism In The Nebraska Territory, Sean Kammer
Public Opinion Is More Than Law: Popular Sovereignty And Vigilantism In The Nebraska Territory, Sean Kammer
Sean Kammer
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The Railroads Must Have Ties: A Legal History Of Forest Conservation And The Oregon & California Railroad Land Grant, 1887-1916, Sean Kammer
Sean Kammer
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