Free land claims have a long history in the U.S., going back as far as the 1862 Homestead Act that granted citizens and intended citizens government land to live on and cultivate. However, the program ...
There’s a place in South Dakota, about 25 miles north of Wall Drug, that some locals still call “Jew Flats.” More than 100 years ago, the United States gave my great-great grandparents and their ...
A little over a month after the federal government filed a lawsuit for the Free Land Holders’ “unlawful” claim of 1,400 acres of Forest Service land outside Mancos, they submitted a 50-page response.