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Dr. L. A. Culmsee in his oasis won from the desert after twenty years of effort. Courtesy of the author.
Last Free Land Rush BY CARLTON CULMSEE
U T A H S E E M S NOT TO HAVE RECEIVED general recognition for initiating America's last expansive free land rush. Reed Smoot led the 1909 ConDr. Culmsee is dean emeritus, Utah State University.