Fifty Million Acres: Conflicts over Kansas Land Policy, 1854-1890

by Paul Wallace Gates, Allan G. Bogue

Book by Gates, Paul Wallace

311 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1997

About the author

Paul Wallace Gates (1901–1999) was a professor of history and general historian who is widely considered to be the foremost authority on the history of federal land policy in the United States. Gates wrote 10 books and 75 academic articles, and his magnum opus was History of Public Land Law Development.