"1880s" Quotes from Famous Books
... mountains as of 1800), farmers and herders pushed into a nearly empty land, dispossessed the Indians, and exploited the country. And in course of time the American pioneers wanted and received political organization. California entered the Union in 1850, the Plains states mostly in the 1880s, and more states, such as Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, came into the ... — Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology • John T. Schlebecker |