What’s really amazing is that in Oregon the federal government gave huge amounts of land to the Oregon & California railroad in exchange for building a railroad. When the railroad didn’t build the track, the land came back to the federal government. They said it could be used by the state for the schools. Ha. Eventually that stopped and that is now BLM land.
One has to wonder how it could have reverted to the feds, but this study says they have to eventually divest themselves of it.
How long has Oregon been a state?