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The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University
Paul Wallace Gates
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Description for The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University
Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages, 34, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPVH3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 628.
A provision of the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 allowed Cornell University to acquire 500,000 acres of valuable timberland in northern Wisconsin. Although most land grant universities immediately sold the federal tracts that had been allocated to them, Cornell held the land to allow it to appreciate. While the university was guarding its rights as a trustee of this estate, dealing with the supervisors and tax collectors of several counties, and negotiating with lumbermen, it did not escape criticism for its role as an absentee landlord. As Paul Wallace Gates details in The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University, ... Read more
A provision of the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 allowed Cornell University to acquire 500,000 acres of valuable timberland in northern Wisconsin. Although most land grant universities immediately sold the federal tracts that had been allocated to them, Cornell held the land to allow it to appreciate. While the university was guarding its rights as a trustee of this estate, dealing with the supervisors and tax collectors of several counties, and negotiating with lumbermen, it did not escape criticism for its role as an absentee landlord. As Paul Wallace Gates details in The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780801477638
SKU
V9780801477638
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About Paul Wallace Gates
The late Paul Wallace Gates was John Stambaugh Professor Emeritus of History at Cornell University. He was the author of books including The Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work and The History of Public Land Law Development.
Reviews for The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University
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 ... Read more