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Apaches of Finance Feasted on Government Lands
A Washington report claims the Interior Department led land grafts over 25 years, with schemes by San Francisco real estate rings and mining firms. It details Ballinger criticism, investigations by Hitchcock era detectives, and widespread abuses in homestead and mineral land entries across the West and Alaska.
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Sydney Espey
Washington
Department of the Interior
Alaska
Interior Department
Mares West
Ballinger
Taft
Roosevelt
General Land Office
Cunningham
Congress
San Francisco
Hitchcock
District of Columbia
West