land fever†

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a strong desire to obtain title to public lands offered for settlement.

Quotations

1860

Let us remember the land fever and take care to avoid catching a complaint of a somewhat similar character under the name of "oil fever".

1900

Many years passed before the North-West recovered from the commercial lethargy which followed this attack of land-fever.