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Landlord William Scully

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Homer E. Socolofsky
2024
Published by: University Press of Kansas
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Landlord William Scully presents a full picture of the investment and land-management activities of one of the most important figures in American agricultural history. An Irishman who first came to the United States in 1850, Scully eventually built up holdings amounting to almost a quarter million acres of the richest prairie and farm lands in Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri. The vast land empire, which was worked by some fifteen hundred tenant farmers, earned for Scully the reputation of being America’s greatest landlord—this despite the fact that he remained an alien until the last decade of his life.


Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Half-Title Page, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

pp. i-vi

Table of Contents

pp. vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp. ix-x

Preface

pp. xi-xiv

1. Privilege and Tragedy: The Early Years

pp. 1-14

2. William Scully Becomes a Landlord

pp. 15-24

3. Scully and His New American Lands

pp. 25-38

4. Bloodshed at Ballycohey

pp. 39-64

5. Renewed Interest in America

pp. 65-78

6. Order to Scully Business

pp. 79-92

7. The Private Life of a Wealthy Landlord

pp. 93-102

8. Scully's Scalpers

pp. 103-120

9. The Fruition of Dreams

pp. 121-134

10. The Scully Estates in Later Years

pp. 135-154

Bibliographical Essay

pp. 155-156

Notes

pp. 157-174

Index

pp. 175-182

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