This text focuses on the history of the development of law in relation to the public lands , the colonial land systems, the origin of the public domain, and the

The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation's land primarily for recreation and conservation.

"The management of public lands in the West is a matter of long-standing and oft-contentious debates. The government must balance the interests of a variety of

In Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita examine literary representations of settler colonial land enclosure an