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Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
History of the first railroad built across Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
"The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway-commonly known as the MK&T, or the Katy-began in 1865 as the Southern Branch of the Union Pacific Railway Company. As the American nation turned westward following the Civil War, the Katy was the first railroad to enter the Indian Territory, linking St. Louis and lands to the east with the developing areas of southern Texas and the Gulf....
Author
Publisher
J. Wiley
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Long before he became the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson waged a bloody campaign to gain lasting American control of the Old Southwest - the huge territory that stretched from the Appalachians to the Mississippi and from the Ohio River to the Gulf of Mexico. Under the Peace of Paris of 1783, most of this vast country had already been ceded to the United States by Great Britain. But from the Creeks and the Seminoles to the...
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