Homestead Act, Narrated by Todd Arrington

Todd Arrington is an American historian, Army veteran, author, and Executive Director of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation. Arrington examines the Homestead Act of 1862, which offered 160 acres of land—taken from Indigenous tribes—to settlers seeking opportunity in the American West.

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