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“If a Western Rip Van Winkle had fallen asleep in 1869 and awakened in 1896, he would not have recognized the lands that the railroads had touched. Bison had yielded to cattle; mountains had been...
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Open Range Ahead
On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his most famous speech, his second inaugural address to the American nation that had endured four hard years of civil war. In seven hundred and one...
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