federal land disposal rather than an account 

 of the settlement of the public lands.) 

 9. Hill, R. T. — The Public Domain and Democracy, 

 in Columbia University Studies, Vol. 

 XXXVIII (1910), No. 1, Chapter II. 



10. McMaster, J. B. — History of the People of the 



United States, Vol. Ill, Chapter XVI. 



11. Pelzer, Louis. — The Public Domain as a Field 



for Historical Study, in The Iowa Journal of 

 History and Politics, Vol. XII (1914), pp. 

 568-578. 



12. Sato, Shosuke. — History of the Land Question of 



the United States, in Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity Studies, Fourth Series (1886), pp. 5-60; 

 77-150. 



13. Treat, P. J. —The Public Lands and the Public 



Land Policy, in McLaughlin and Hart's 

 Cyclopedia of American Government (1914), 

 Vol. Ill, pp. 93-97. (See also bibliography 

 appended to this article.) 

 The National Land System, 1785-1820. Espe- 

 cially chapters I, II, IV, V rnd XIV. For 

 the Land Act of 1785, see pp. 395-400. 



14. Welling, J. C. — The States Rights Conflict Over 



the Public Lands. Papers of American His- 

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15. American State Papers: Public Lands. (Eight 



volumes). 1 785-1 o37. Exceedingly valuable. 



IX. 



AGRICULTURE DURING THE EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD. 



1783-1815. 



1. Adams, Henry. — History of the United States, 



Vol. I (1889), Chapters I, II and VI. 



2. Bassett, J. S. — Federalist System, in The Amer- 



ican Nation, Vol. XI, Chapter XIII. 



3. Bidwell, P. W. — Rural Economy in Nexv Eng- 



land at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Cen- 



