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Author Merrill, Karen R

Title Public lands and political meaning : ranchers, the government, and the property between them / Karen R. Merrill
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 274 pages)
Contents Policing and policy-making on the range -- The properties of the home-builder -- The lessons of the market -- The sovereignty of the state, or the states? -- The Taylor Grazing Act and the "Vast National Estate" -- Property rights and political meaning
Summary Reconstructing the increasingly contested interpretations of the meaning of public land administration, this book traces the history of the political dynamics between ranchers and federal land agencies
Analysis Samfundsvidenskab Økonomi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-262) and index
Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Western History Association Robert G. Athearn Award, 2004
Subject Public lands -- United States -- History
Government ownership -- United States -- History
Ranchers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History
Pasture, Right of -- United States -- History
NATURE -- Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Government ownership
Pasture, Right of
Public lands
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696789
ISBN 9780520926882
0520926889
0585419779
9780585419770
1597348384
9781597348386
9780520228627
0520228626