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Thank You, President Lincoln

by | Sep 4, 2022 | Art, Guns and Culture, Old West Saviors

Here’s how we got home, home on the range. Free Land!” In 30 states. Offering 270 million acres—one tenth of the entire United States. Over two million claims. Perhaps the most important piece of legislation in the history of the nation,  All that was The Homestead Act of 1862, signed by President Abraham Lincoln after the southern states seceded.     It was revolution


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