Euro-American Migration on the Overland Trails

The possibility of a better life, the lure of the unknown trans-Mississippi West, and the idea of manifest destiny appealed to American expansionist sentiments during the mid-19th century. A shortage of land in the East, untapped sources of wealth in the ...

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