After the Civil War, Americans accelerated their conquest of the lands west of the Mississippi River. The story of that conquest is one of hard - working farmers and ranch families and unwavering miners. It was a tale of gallantry, of those who left everything behind to take a trial at the new life and the difficulty of working the land. While times were not going as planned, with all the fake advertisements, the government …showed first 75 words of 856 total…

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