In this episode. we will see the Federal Government take dramatic steps to open western lands. The end of the war. however. marked the initiation of one of Americas great dreams. the building of the transcontinental railroad. An engineering marvell..775 miles of track laid in 6 years. across deserts and plains. through mountains and rugged terrainthe story of the transcontinental railroad is also an appalling chronicle of the heedlessness with which Immigrants were treated in a fastexpanding America. The fifth episode. "Fight No More Forever." will watch as the stream of people traveling to the West via the transcontinental railroad turns into a flood as land Is offered by the government in the Homestead Act of 1862160 acres for a 310 filing fee. In this episode. the Wild West will become cowboy country and the great cattle drives legendary.
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