The public land laws of the United States : with instructions and decisions appertaining thereto, and all the congressional and legislative acts relating to the public lands in the states of California, Oregon, Nevada, Kansas, and Nebraska, and the territories of Alaska, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Dakota, New Mexico, and Arizona, with an introduction to each, together with practice and forms
1 online resource (viii, 1113 pages) : illustrations, forms
"Also an appendix, containing all the acts of Congress from 1869 to August 1876, relative to public lands--grants of lands to railroads--the creation of land districts--protection of the rights of settlers on the public lands of the United States--grants to ditch and canal owners--acts in relation to mines--mining and mineral lands--and homestead and pre-exemption rights. With a full and complete index."