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The Law Behind the Great Plains' Giant Square Plots
Monday, 11 May, 2020
If you fly over the Great Plains today, giant squares of land immediately stand out. Many of these are the 160-acre plots forged out of the prairie by 19th-century pioneers, a legacy of the Homestead Act of 1862.






