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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.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 274 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-262) and index.
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.
Awards Western History Association Robert G. Athearn Award, 2004.
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Subject Public lands -- United States -- History.
Public lands.
United States.
History.
Government ownership -- United States -- History.
Government ownership.
Ranchers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History.
Ranchers.
Pasture, Right of -- United States -- History.
NATURE -- Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business.
Pasture, Right of.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Indexed Term Samfundsvidenskab Økonomi.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Public lands and political meaning Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. 0520228626 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2001003100
ISBN 9780520926882 ebook
0520926889
0520228626 cloth alkaline paper
0585419779 (electronic book)
9780585419770 (electronic book)
1597348384
9781597348386
9780520228627
0520228626