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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Park Ranger Amber Kirkendall with the Homestead National Historical Park talked about the Homestead Act of 1862 and provided a tour of a home on the ...

At the end of this year in which election results reinserted immigration into the political conversation, remember that 2012 is the 150th anniversary of "the first comprehensive immigration law." This ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Today is the 150th anniversary of the Homestead Act of 1862, which gave land west of the Mississippi to pioneers who would settle it. It was discontinued in 1976. The original document, signed by ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A group in Colorado has fenced a parcel of U.S. Forest Service Land in an attempt to claim the land under the Homestead Act of 1862. According to the Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office, ...

I do wish Mike McFeely asked the North Dakota State Historical Society staff a few more questions about the 1862 Homestead Act in advance of his Aug. 7 column. If he had, he'd have learned that the ...

With real estate prices going up and up these days, it is difficult to imagine a time when oceanfront or riverfront property was free. In 1862, Congress passed a Homestead Act which offered as many as ...

RUGBY, N.D. - It was standing room only in the Econolodge's conference room in Rugby, N.D., when Darrell Dorgan introduced D. Jerome Tweton, history professor emeritus at the University of North ...