conditions which it furnishes, or perish, and so . . . little by little he transforms the wilderness, but the outcome is not the old Europe.... The fact is, that here is a new product that is American....” --Frederick Jackson Turner, 1893 The great westward expansion of European American pioneers is one of the most celebrated periods in our country’s history. We idealize its ruggedness, its characters, and the many sure dichotomies of the frontier: good versus evil, civilizations versus savagery
armies would make a big iron shield to protect the trains. The armies would often trick the enemy by going back and forth with the train so the enemy would chase the train to block their supply lines. As the armies and trains move on they have to keep rebuilding the tracks because the enemy has destroys them. They would also start a locomotive down the track to ram the enemy train. They also had armie ready trains where the troops pile out with weapons ready. Some of the army trains would have bags