&quot;The Dummy Homesteader&quot;

"The Dummy Homesteader"

Title: "The Dummy Homesteader"
Description: This cartoon from Puck published in 1909 satirizes business environmentalists who hid their interests in public lands behind the visage of rural homesteaders when, in reality, their interest in public lands were “power monopolists” and “land grifters” who were primarily interested in mineral and waterpower rights. Businessmen are depicted taking “fraudulent titles” from the “dummy homesteader.” In the following decades, rural homesteaders and local hunters attempted to hold wealthy elite recreationists accountable to wildlife conservation laws by writing editorials with a similar critique of elite misuse of resources for their own interests.
Creator: Udo J. Keppler See all items with this value
Publisher: Keppler & Schwarzmann, Puck Building, New York
Date: November 24, 1909 See all items with this value
Type: political cartoon
Format: jpeg
Subject: rural homesteader and hunters criticism of elite misconduct See all items with this value
Rights: no know restrictions

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