The railroad companies then sold this land to private individuals. The land transfers recorded in the tract books include those to individual owners-by homestead, timber claim, military bounty land, land grant, or purchase, but roughly half the acres of land in Kansas were given to railroad companies to encourage railroad expansion. The Tract Books are available online on the Family Search website without indexing, and the State Archives has a copy of the Tract Books on microfilm. The Kansas Tract Book Guide (large PDF file) shows the townships and ranges covered in each volume of the tract books, which you need to know before you can use the Tract Books. They show the legal description of the tract, the name of the purchaser or grantee, the number of acres, the price per acre, the purchase amount, the date of sale and which law applied to the transaction. The Tract Books are not indexed by the landowner's name. These books list the land by the legal description-section, township and range. The initial transfer of land from the federal government is recorded in the Kansas Tract Books. Kansas is a public-domain land state, meaning the federal government gave away or sold the land in Kansas.
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