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Across Plains No Promise Could Hold

Across Plains No Promise Could Hold

Por Sloane, Juniper

Publicado por epubli

English 2026
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For many migrants, the West was not freedom but negotiation. Land policies advertised opportunity while quietly creating new hierarchies of ownership, labor, and exclusion across the expanding United States. Behind the language of settlement stood a continent already inhabited, contested, and unevenly governed. Centered on the historical consequences of the Homestead Act, this account follows immigrant communities, Black workers, and Indigenous nations navigating the unstable realities of western expansion. Federal land regulation encouraged mass migration from Europe and Asia while accelerating conflicts over territory, water access, and political authority. The book traces how railroads, mining economies, and agricultural speculation altered social life across frontier settlements that were often more fragile than later mythology suggested. At the same time, twentieth-century popular culture recast these tensions into simplified stories of cowboys and outlaws. Films and pulp fiction transformed collective memory by reducing complex racial and economic struggles into symbols of national destiny. The distance between historical experience and cultural representation became one of the defining features of the American frontier itself. The West that emerged was not merely geographic. It became a permanent argument about citizenship, ownership, and the meaning of belonging in modern America.

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Across Plains No Promise Could Hold está disponible como eBook en 7 librerías online. Entre las librerías que lo venden están Bajalibros Argentina, Bajalibros Latam, Bookshop Uruguay.

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