Abstract
One of the unexplored facets of American land history is the annual tax sale for delinquent property taxes. Only the depression crisis of the early 1930s gave national notoriety to tax auctions because of the nearly total collapse of the property-tax system.1 But the flurry of interest was shortlived once the economy recovered. In the nineteenth century the story was quite different. The fall tax auction was a red-letter date on the community calendar. It was announced in the local press a month in advance by an itemized tally of delinquent lands that squeezed most of .
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