Esther Morris, the first woman to hold a judicial position in the United States, presided over an interesting first case. The departing justice of the peace refused to turn over the court docket an...

"God has nearly to kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons." "In a recent bulletin of the [Census for 1890] appear these significant words: [...] '[A]t present the unsettled area has been so broken...

Number of homesteads claimed under the 1862 Homestead Act: 372,659 Share of Homestead Act homesteaders who lasted five years and received title to the land: 1/3 Acres of public land granted to rail...

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The Big Four The founders of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Collis Huntington, and Mark Hopkins. California Doctrine An innovative principle in American wat...