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Baca County Homestead
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News
articles from the Neosho County Journal (Kansas) written in August, 1887,
describing how the new land office had been opened in Lamar,
Colorado. Gives a glowing review of how wonderful the land in
Southeast Colorado is, stating that “Never
in the history of the wonderful West has there been such a rush of
settlers and people into a new territory.”
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1887
- William
R Phelps of Washington County, VA homesteads near Vilas
Click on this link to read a summary of the homestead claim of William
R Phelps and get all of his official homestead papers.
- The
official homestead papers for William R. Phelps obtained from the
National Archives. The
information necessary to order these documents was found on the
Government Land Office Records, Bureau of Land Management website.
www.glorecords.blm.gov.
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Click on the booklet photo to get all pages of this booklet:
- A
copy of the booklet prepared by the Colorado Board of Immigration in
1872. This was downloaded from the Library of Congress
Internet site in their collections of The Nineteenth Century in
Print: Books.
- 1872:
Territorial Board of Immigration created with the objective to
“present facts concerning Colorado as an attractive and desirable
locality for those seeking homes in the Great West; to supply immigrants
with full and authoritative information, as well as to aid and facilitate
their journey hither”.
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This page was last updated on 08/25/11 05:43 PM
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