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Enlarged Homestead Act of 1909
In 1862, the U.S. Congress passed one of the most influential pieces of legislation ever written. The Homestead Act of 1862 was a result of vigorous agitation by many western settlers. The act allotted settlers the opportunity to homestead 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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