Pricing the Land: The Buying and Selling of Frontier New York and the Cayuga Reservation - Hardcoverby Scott W. Anderson (Author) Pricing the Land reconstructs the complicated history of buying and selling land along the New York frontier after the American Revolution. Scott W. Anderson focuses on the prices bid for lots in central New York that had been set aside for veterans of the war (the New Military Tract) and within the Cayuga Reservation created by treaty in 1789, comprising a hundred square miles of land on both shores of the northern end