The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University: A Study in Land Policy and Absentee Ownership - Softcover

Gates, Paul Wallace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801477638 ISBN 13: 9780801477638

Verlag: Cornell University Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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, the university's perseverance paid off―the eventual sale of surface rights to the land yielded a five-million-dollar endowment and is regarded as one of the most successful episodes of land speculation in U.S. history.

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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.

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• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0801477638
• ISBN 13: 9780801477638
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 286
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