• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    the western US didn’t even really develop until trains came out in the 1869

    The western US didn’t really develop until the government started giving land that had already been ceded to indigenous peoples and couldn’t actually support dense settlement to white settlers, at the behest of railroad companies who needed an artificial reason to build railroads in the first place.