Describes the conflict between environmentalists and commercial and recreational interests over how the remaining wilderness areas in America should be used.
a primary source history of the settlement of the American Heartland in the late 19th century
Porterfield, Jason
2005
Chronicles the history of the Homestead Act of 1862 which offered settlers up to one hundred sixty acres of land in the American Plains and invoked a horde of prospective homesteaders including new immigrants, women, and freed slaves.
Discusses the Homestead Act of 1862, a government plan designed to encourage people to settle the frontier, explains the provisions of the legislation, and describes the challenges people faced trying to live in the wilderness.
