Bucking The Railroads On The Kansas Frontier The Struggle Over Land Claims By Homesteading Civil War Veterans 18671876

"By linking farmers and businessmen with eastern markets, the railroads guaranteed the prospects of economic gain. However, when they claimed rights to the land that settlers had already claimed, railroad monopolies were identified as a new manifestation of the same threat to republican values they had fought against in the recently concluded War "--Provided by publisher.