"Detailed and informative,"Townsite Settlement andDispossession in the Cherokee Nation, 1866-1907"(Garland Publishing, $60) examines how the U.S. government-"through persuasion, coercion, and outright imposition"-divided up commonly held reservation land and properties in hte last third of the 19th century.Brad A. Bay's astute focus is on the townsite settlement and disposesession of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma."

• List of Tables, List of Illustrations, Preface, Acknowledgments, I Introduction, II Postbellum Land and Life, III Initial Cherokee Policy and Early Townsites, IV Economy, Population, Jurisdiction, and Town Building, 1875-1885, V Politics, Economy, and Cherokee Townsite Development, 1885-1895, VI Establishment of Federal Control, 1896-1902, VII Federal Policy and the Alienation of Cherokee Townsites, 1902-1907, VIII Conclusions, Selected Bibliography, Index

"Detailed and informative,"Townsite Settlement andDispossession in the Cherokee Nation, 1866-1907"(Garland Publishing, $60) examines how the U.S. government-"through persuasion, coercion, and outright imposition"-divided up commonly held reservation land and properties in hte last third of the 19th century.Brad A. Bay's astute focus is on the townsite settlement and disposesession of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma."

• List of Tables, List of Illustrations, Preface, Acknowledgments, I Introduction, II Postbellum Land and Life, III Initial Cherokee Policy and Early Townsites, IV Economy, Population, Jurisdiction, and Town Building, 1875-1885, V Politics, Economy, and Cherokee Townsite Development, 1885-1895, VI Establishment of Federal Control, 1896-1902, VII Federal Policy and the Alienation of Cherokee Townsites, 1902-1907, VIII Conclusions, Selected Bibliography, Index

"Detailed and informative,"Townsite Settlement andDispossession in the Cherokee Nation, 1866-1907"(Garland Publishing, $60) examines how the U.S. government-"through persuasion, coercion, and outright imposition"-divided up commonly held reservation land and properties in hte last third of the 19th century.Brad A. Bay's astute focus is on the townsite settlement and disposesession of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma."

• List of Tables, List of Illustrations, Preface, Acknowledgments, I Introduction, II Postbellum Land and Life, III Initial Cherokee Policy and Early Townsites, IV Economy, Population, Jurisdiction, and Town Building, 1875-1885, V Politics, Economy, and Cherokee Townsite Development, 1885-1895, VI Establishment of Federal Control, 1896-1902, VII Federal Policy and the Alienation of Cherokee Townsites, 1902-1907, VIII Conclusions, Selected Bibliography, Index