Grasshopper Acts
Acts of Congress[1] from 1874 – 1877 granting provisions and relief to homesteaders on public lands who's crops had been severely damaged or destroyed by plagues of grasshoppers.[1]
The Thirty-Ninth Star: In July of 1876, Hazelton joked with the desk clerk at the Capital City Hotel that Congress was passing a law against grasshoppers.[2]
SOURCE REFERENCES
01. Public Land Laws Passed by Congress from March 4, 1875, to April 1, 1882; (1883)Henry N. Copp; General Land Office, Washington, D. C.
02. Maverick, The Thirty-Ninth Star (1958), Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
03. 1874: The year of the Locust; The Kansas Historical Society; HistoryNet (retrieved May 23, 2016)
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