Civil war Quote by Rinker Buck

“Before these laws could be put into effect, a new wave of white settlers swept westward and formed the territories of Wisconsin and Iowa.…

— Dee Brown

“Much fuss has been made over the idea of the frontier, as though it were a line advancing east to west, but the West…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The state of New York had just one important advantage—an opening to the west through the Appalachian Mountains, the chain that runs in rough…

— Bill Bryson

“To arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context,as pretty scenery. But to arrive after…

— Robert M. Pirsig

My wife and I drove across America following the Oregon Trail, which the pioneers once passed along.

— Sandi Toksvig

“Great Migration. It would become perhaps the biggest underreported story of the twentieth century. It was vast. It was leaderless. It crept along so…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“We all have come here from somewhere else, and the vast majority of us are only a few generations removed from another land. Whether…

— Dan Rather

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

— Walter Lippmann

Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois. While they…

— Ishmael Reed

“There were railroads in the wilderness now; people who used to go overland by carriage or horseback to the River landings for the Memphis…

— William Faulkner

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers…

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the end…

— Isabel Wilkerson