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Summary: Looks at the gradual arrival of explorers and settlers in the land between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Examines the lasting cost of Western settlement to the Native American peoples, with the 19th-century migrations of Europeans, African Americans, Mexicans, Chinese and Irish. Details how people lived in family homes, on cattle ranches, on reservations, in religious settlements and wild frontier towns. Considers how lifestyles changed as the 19th century drew to a close