Research Guides: Rural Property and Natural Resources Law: History of US Land Settlement

Resources

Books

Atlas of Nebraska by J. Clark Archer; Richard Edwards; Leslie M. Howard; Fred M. Shelley; Donald A. Wilhite; David J. Wishart
Call Number: G1450 .A7 2017
ISBN: 9780803249394
Publication Date: 2017-10-01
Available from UNL Archives & Special Collections.
Federal Ground by Gregory Ablavsky
Call Number: KF5605 .A73 2021
ISBN: 9780190905699
Publication Date: 2021-02-26
See also Professor Shoemaker's Michigan Law Review article below: "The Truth About Property".
History of Public Land Law Development by Paul W. Gates; Robert W. Swenson
Call Number: KF5605 .G3 1968
ISBN: 9780892010424
Publication Date: 1981-01-01
Homesteading the Plains by Richard Edwards; Jacob K. Friefeld; Rebecca S. Wingo
Call Number: KF5640 .E39 2017
ISBN: 9781496213945
Publication Date: 2019-05-01
Available at Love Library in the open stacks and in the Archives & Special Collections.
Property and Dispossession by Allan Greer
ISBN: 9781316613696
Publication Date: 2018-01-11
Ramp Hollow by Steven Stoll
Call Number: HD210 .A66 S76 2017
ISBN: 9780809080199
Publication Date: 2018-11-20
Available at Love Library.

Articles

Anna di Robilant, Populist Property Law, 49 Conn. L. Rev. 933 (2017).

Hannah Haaksgard, Including Unmarried Women in the Homestead Act of 1862, 67 Wayne L. Rev. 253 (2022).

Hannah Haaksgard, The Homesteading Rights of Deserted Wives: A History, 99 Neb. L. Rev. 419 (2020).

Hannah Haaksgard, Defining "Home" through Homestead Laws, 33 Berkeley J. Gender L. & Just. 169 (2018).

Online Resources