This advertisement from the Department of the Interior, circa 1911, offers surplus Indian land for sale.
After allotments for tribal land (to build schools, missions, or other administrative needs) were determined, the government sold additional…
The Mexican Cession was the result of the Mexican-American War from 1846-1848. President James K. Polk had promised to fulfill the "Manifest Destiny" before he left office, even if it meant going to war. With the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In…