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If we're talking about the land lottery or the yazoo land fraud then the answer would be true.
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Examining historiography
Historiography is defined as the study of the resources, process and methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic explains how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches.