![]() Rather than proceeding in a systematic march across a continent, a wild cast of characters - miners, farmers, ranchers, loggers - raced into the West, locating natural resources, extracting them and refining them into commodities to place on the market. Stretched past its capacity by the tumultuous migrations and movements of the 19th century, that orderly term “westward expansion” is ready for a break. PRAIRIE FIRES The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder By Caroline Fraser Illustrated. (This book was selected as one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2017.
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