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After reading the Native American pieces at the end, I began to wonder if this was really about railroads or about broader systems of oppression. It seems like the buffalo would have been decimated and the tribes in Yellowstone undermined with or without the railroad- perhaps the railroad sped up these affects, but I feel like they were inevitable. -- Matt Struth | After reading the Native American pieces at the end, I began to wonder if this was really about railroads or about broader systems of oppression. It seems like the buffalo would have been decimated and the tribes in Yellowstone undermined with or without the railroad- perhaps the railroad sped up these affects, but I feel like they were inevitable. -- Matt Struth | ||
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| + | I found the artcile on "Railroads and Russian Peasants" to have a American pride theme to it. The author quotes very large numbers and talks of how the American locomotive could influence a reform and which would cause the freedom of the many Russian peasants that occupy the land. - Melissa Graham | ||
