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4. American Progress, Gast 1872.jpg
This painting is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Here Columbia, a personification of the United States, leads civilization westward with American settlers, stringing telegraph wire as she sweeps west; she holds a…

10. Daniel_Boone_protects_his_family 1874.jpg
Daniel Boone fighting with a Native, as his wife cowers over their son on the left.

Indian Land for Sale.jpg
This advertisement from the Department of the Interior, circa 1911, offers surplus Indian land for sale.  After allotments for tribal land (to build schools, missions, or other administrative needs) were determined, the government sold additional…
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