The Jeffersonian Dream: Studies in the History of American Land Policy and Development

by Paul Wallace Gates, Margaret Beattie Bogue (Editor), University of New Mexico Center for the American West

Book by Gates, Paul Wallace, Bogue, Allan G., Bogue, Margaret Beattie

171 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1996

About the author

Paul Wallace Gates (1901–1999) was a professor of history and general historian who is widely considered to be the foremost authority on the history of federal land policy in the United States. Gates wrote 10 books and 75 academic articles, and his magnum opus was History of Public Land Law Development.