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Homestead Act
In 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act to open government lands to settlement, primarily those west of the Mississippi River. Most of the available land lay in the arid territory west of the ninety-eighth meridian. Small farms of 160 acres ...
- American Indians
- American Indian Migration to Phoenix, Arizona Apache
- Arapaho
- Assiniboine
- Blackfoot Nation
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Cahuilla Nation
- California Indians of the North Coast and Northwestern Coast
- California Indians of the Northern Mountains
- California Indians of the Northern Valley
- Chemehuevi
- Cheyennes
- Creek Nation
- Crow Nation
- Cupeños
- Gabrielino
- Gros Ventre
- Hopi
- Juaneños
- Kumeyaay (Diegueño, I'ipay, and Tipai)
- Lakotas
- Luiseño
- Maidu
- Mojave
- Nez Perce
- Northern Pueblo
- Palouse Indians
- Trail of Tears
- Upland Yumans
- Utes
- Washoe
- Yakama
- Yokuts
- Biography
- Austin, Stephen Fuller
- Bartleson, John
- Bass, Charlotta A. Spear(s)
- Bidwell, John
- Bloom, Jessie S.
- Brent, Joseph Lancaster
- Carr, Jeanne Carver Smith
- Chapman, Joseph
- Dellums, Cottrell Lawrence
- Duniway, Abigail Scott
- Feldenheimer, Edith
- Foltz, Clara Shortridge
- Foote, Mary Hallock
- Frank, Ray
- Fremont, John Charles
- Gale, William Alden
- Gianforte, Greg
- Hartnell, William
- Harvey, Frederick Henry
- Irvine, James Harvey
- Jacks, David Baird
- Percival, Olive May
- Pittman, Tarea Hall
- Reed, John Thomas
- Singleton, Benjamin
- Strauss, Levi
- Sutter, Johann August
- Thrall, William H.
- Van Nuys, Isaac Newton
- Wilson, Benjamin Davis
- Winnemucca, Sarah
- Cities and Towns
- Billings, Montana
- Bisbee and Douglas, Arizona
- Boise, Idaho
- Boyle Heights, California
- Bozeman, Montana
- Brigham City, Utah
- Butte, Montana
- China Lake, Inyokern, and Ridgecrest, California
- Cody, Wyoming
- Dearfield, Colorado
- Denver, Pueblo, Boulder, Fort Collins, and Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Fort Worth, Texas
- Fresno, California
- Gilead, Kansas
- Goldfield, Nevada
- Grass Valley, California
- Great Falls, Montana
- Helena, Montana
- Huntington Beach, California
- Jackson, Wyoming
- Julian, California
- Kalispell, Montana
- Lake Havasu City, Arizona
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Last Chance Gulch, Montana
- Leadville, Colorado
- Lewiston and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
- Libby, Montana
- Lincoln, Nebraska
- Los Angeles, California
- Miles City, Montana
- Mining Ghost Towns
- Missoula, Montana
- Moab, Utah
- Moscow, Idaho
- Nampa, Idaho
- Nicodemus, Kansas
- Northwood, North Dakota
- Omaha, Nebraska
- Park City, Utah
- Phoenix, Arizona
- Prescott, Arizona
- Price, Utah
- Rawhide, Nevada
- Rexburg, Idaho, and the Minidoka Project
- Rhyolite, Nevada
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- San Antonio, Texas
- San Diego, California
- San Dimas, California
- San Francisco, California
- Santa Ana River Valley
- Santa Ana, California
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- St. George, Utah
- Sun City, Arizona
- Tacoma, Washington
- Temecula, California
- Tombstone, Arizona
- Tonopah, Nevada
- Topeka, Kansas
- Tucson, Arizona
- Virginia City, Montana
- Visalia, California
- Wichita, Kansas
- Economic Change and War
- Defense Industry
- Dry Farming
- Farming Families on the Oregon Frontier
- Iran-Iraq War and the Migration of Iranian Youth to California
- Military Base Closures
- United States Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego
- World War I Americanization Programs in California
- World War II Defense Industries
- World War II–Postwar Effects on Western Migration
- Ethnic and Racial Groups
- African American Communities in California
- Anglo Migration to Southern California Before the Depression
- Basque Americans
- Chileans and the California Gold Rush
- Chinese Immigration
- Czechs and Swedes in Saunders County, Nebraska
- Euro-American Migration on the Overland Trails
- French Basques of Bakersfield, California
- Frisians
- Irish in the West
- Koreatown
- Little Italy
- Little Tokyo and Japantown
- Mexican Migration to California
- Okies
- Pacific Islanders
- Slaves in California
- Vietnamese American Women
- Immigration Laws and Policies
- Asian Immigration Law
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Forced Migration of Anarchists
- Forced Migration of Italians During World War II
- Gentleman's Agreement
- German and Italian Internment
- Immigration Act of 1965
- Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
- Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
- Indian Removal Act of 1830
- Japanese Internment
- Lawyers and Legislation
- Operation Wetback
- Proposition 187
- War Brides of Montana
- World War II Relocation Program
- Libraries
- Natural Resources Events and Laws
- Alien Land Law of 1913
- Arizona Copper Discoveries
- Black Hills Gold Rush of 1874
- Comstock Lode, 1859
- Enlarged Homestead Act of 1909
- Fraser River Gold Rush of 1858
- Frisco Mine, Beaver County, Utah
- Helena's Exploited Resources
- Homestead Act
- Idaho Silver Strikes
- Logging
- Mineral Land Policy
- Nevada's Mining Discoveries of the 20th Century
- Nineteenth-Century Land Policy
- Pick-Sloan Plan of 1944
- Pike's Peak Rush
- Rexburg, Idaho, and the Minidoka Project
- The Way West
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