I apologize if this sounds stupid, but when I think about the past it seems like things shouldn’t have worked the way they did, but they still did anyways.
They didn’t have computers or cloud networks to record who owned what. So, how was it all tracked? Was it possible for someone just walk out west, stake a claim on a piece of land, build a house and live there for 30 years while everyone just kind of accepted it?
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Paper records. If for some reason you were challenged over your claim to a certain piece of land you would show your deed to the court. Of course sometimes these things were unclear. Multiple people might have been sold the same land, there could be confusion about the demarcations of different plots, and courts handled these thing. These issues still come up today.
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