The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University is a first-rate piece of scholarship by the most important twentieth-century scholar of the history of U.S. public lands. -William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Makes a valuable contribution to Wisconsin history, to the history of our public domain, and to land economics. -Wisconsin Magazine of History Clearly written. It will be of permanent value for the history of the public lands, the land-grant college, and the lumber industry. -American Historical Review An excellent monograph . . . thorough . . . a valuable type-study of the timber frontier in the Great Lakes region during the generation following the Civil War. -Mississippi Valley Historical Review The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University-with its careful and imaginative scholarship-is particularly valuable because it offers insights into broader themes at the grassroots of political and economic life. Gates made perceptive use of manuscripts and local newspapers. -Economic History Review As land and agricultural historians know, this is the account of the manner by which the land scrip assigned to New York under the Morrill Act was located by Ezra Cornell on the pine lands of the public domain in Wisconsin. By careful management and negotiations on the part of the university there was produced a substantial endowment for Cornell. It also produced the type of situation that was bound to occur when one state owned a half million acres within the boundaries of another that were also valuable properties to which local interests, private and public, aspired. -Agricultural History