Offers 12 different views on the growth of western territories and the impact on American Indians. Each page explores what happened during westward expansion and how it affected different people.
Sixteen potential brides arrive in Plum Grove, Nebraska, where they risk everything to fulfill their dream of owning land and finding love, turning the townspeople upside down in the process.
a primary source history of the settlement of the American Heartland in the late 19th century
Porterfield, Jason
2005
Chronicles the history of the Homestead Act of 1862 which offered settlers up to one hundred sixty acres of land in the American Plains and invoked a horde of prospective homesteaders including new immigrants, women, and freed slaves.
Discusses the Homestead Act of 1862, a government plan designed to encourage people to settle the frontier, explains the provisions of the legislation, and describes the challenges people faced trying to live in the wilderness.
