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English
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Gold, War, and the New West of the 1860s
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Dreams, Myths, and Reality : Utah and the American West
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Salt Lake City
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Signature Books
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173-203
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In this lecture, May discusses the rapid growth and change experienced by the western United States during the 1860s. He describes these changes of population and culture, and attributes them to the affects of the gold rush, civil war, and promise of the transcontinental railroad.