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Contents: Manifest destiny; The Native Americans; The importance of thebuffalo; Native American weapons and warfare; Life amoung the PlainsIndians; Native American religion and beliefs; Review: The West in1840; Fur traders, trappers and mountain men; The Oregon trail; TheMormons; Miners and mining; Review: the pioneers; Transport and thecoming of the railroad; Homesteading on the Great Plains; The cattletrade; Cowboys: myth and reality; Review: Growth and development on theGreat Plains; The outbreak of fighting on the Great Plains; On thewarpath; The battle of Little Bighorn and its aftermath; Review: Thewar for the Great Plains; Law and Order; The Johnson County War;Review: The last days of the Wild West.