A Stake in the Land :: TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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	Publisher's Note	v
	Foreword	vii
	Table of Contents	ix
	List of Tables	xii
	List of Illustrations	xiii
	Introduction	xv
	Author's Note	xxvii

	PART I
CHAPTER
I.	Need of a Land Policy	3
	Strength of Home Ties	3
	Immigrants' Love of Land	5
	Need for Land Regulation	10
II.	Learning of Land Opportunities	14
	Friends, Agents, and Advertisements	14
	Federal and State Immigration Offices	18
	Policies in California and Wisconsin	19
III.	Experiences in Acquiring Land	24
	Russian Sectarian Peasants in the West	24
	The Successful Colony at Glendale	30
	Other California Cases	31
	An Oklahoma Settlement	33
IV.	Individual Land Dealers	36
	Land Sharks	37
	Lower Type of Land Dealer	39
	The Public-spirited Land Dealer	42
	"Realtors"	45
V.	Private Land Colonization Companies	49
	A Typical Company	52
	The Adviser	62
	Children Overworked	65
	Securing Credit	66
	Conservation of Wooded Land	68
	The Size of a Colony	69
	Learning American Ways	70
	Two Points of View	72
	Colony Snapshots	78
VI.	Public Land Colonization	86
	The California Experiment	86
	State Provisions for Soldier Settlements	91
	The Reclamation Act	95
	Proposed Federal Legislation	98
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