Fraudster James Reavis claimed to own 18,000 square miles of the American West in the 1880s

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Is this supposed to be differernt from how the US government claimed to own the land? (Except that the US government had more weapons)

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The root problem here is acceptance of the idea that any human being can own 18,000 square miles of the planet.

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