The homestead act only ended in the 1970s. We were happily handing out land for free if people were willing to live there and work it quite recently. If there

The homestead act only ended in the 1970s. We were happily handing out land for free if people were willing to live there and work it quite recently. If there had still been a big demand for it, the program would probably still be running. They granted an extension to Alaska for that reason.