Kim Stringfellow
Published: 2021-02
Total Pages: 144
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Through text, photographs, and archival sources Jackrabbit Homestead documents the popular mid-twentieth century "baby" homestead movement that had resulted from Small Tract Act of 1938, which allowed U.S. citizens to receive land from Uncle Sam for a nominal fee from the U.S. government. Jackrabbit Homestead explores one of the last communities of "jackrabbit homesteads" left in the American West with its derelict homestead cabins located among the occasional inhabited ones that are the remaining physical evidence of former occupants who had participated in "one of the strangest land rushes in Southern California history" as the Los Angeles Times described the phenomena during the 1950s. This is the revised and updated 2021 third edition of this title.