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Thomas Jefferson believed that political democracy could be maintained in the United States only if it were made to rest on the firm foundation of economic democracy. "The small landowners are the most precious part of the State," he said, contrasting this ideal economy with a congested population in urban centers which would, he feared, threaten democracy because it would be subject to control by agitators and demagogues. He urged the adoption of a policy of cheap land that would attract laborers from abroad and from the eastern cities to the newly developing areas of the West and the South. Thus he proposed to create a nation of farm owners who would be the very warp and woof of democracy.

Foreword, by F. Merk.--The historian as mythmaker: Turner and the closed frontier, by L. Benson.--Senators, sectionalism, and the "Western" measures of the Republican Party, by A. G. Bogue.--The Homestead clause in railroad land grants, by D. M. Ellis.--Congress looks west: liberal ideology and public land policy in the nineteenth century, by M. E. Young.--Maine and its public domain: land disposal on the northeastern frontier, by D. C. Smith.--Frontier attitudes and debt collection in western New York, by R. W. Silsby.--The mineral lands of the St. Mary's Falls Ship Canal Company, by I. D. Neu.--Vicissitudes of an absentee landlord; a case study, by H. Cohen.--The Scott farms in a new agriculture, 1900-1919, by M. B. Bogue.--Barrier to settlement: British Indian policy in the old Northwest, 1783-1794, by R. F. Berkhofer, Jr.--The Ohio-Mississippi flatboat trade; some reconsiderations, by H. N. Scheiber.--The impact of traders' claims on the American fur trade, by J. L. Clayton.--British immigrants in the old Northwest, 1815-1860, by C. Erickson.--The great speculation; an interpretation of mid-continent pioneering, by L. E. Decker.--The American West and foreign markets, 1850-1900, by M. Rothstein.--Works by Paul Wallace Gates, by G. P. Colman