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English
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The Influence of the Frontier on Joseph Smith
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George Washington University
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Ph.D. diss.
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"A new period in the history of our public lands began with the assumption on the part of the Federal government of the task of reclaiming arid lands by irrigation. A quarter of a century of experience has made it evident that successful settlement of such lands involves economic and social problems of fundamental importance. The nature of these problems and the methods of their solution have been made the subject of special inquiry at the instance of the government and changes designed to relieve setters on many projects from a pressing burden of debt by extending time of payment and relating the amount of payments to the crop yield have been sanctioned by law. Legislation still advocated by those most familiar with the progress of our reclamation projects would provide for selection of settlers and for both financial and educational aid. Beginning at the middle of the last century and continuing to its close, the Mormon people were engaged in settlement projects that presented many difficulties not dissimilar to those confronted to-day in the working out of our Federal reclamation policy. Though the writer is undertaking a study of the methods followed by the Mormon people in the settlement of lands was prompted rather by historic interest than by any aim to shed light on present-day problems, he will be gratified if he has continuted in any degree to a fuller understanding of procedures that have been and that may be found successful in increasing man's domain in the desert." [Author]
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