74. The Western Lands and the Ordinance of 1784

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 4 — The Revolutionary War, 1775-1784

Tags: U.S. History

05/19/2010 Murray N. Rothbard

Pages 413-415 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 8 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: “The Political and Economic History of the United States.”

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