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    The Promised Land: Settling the West 1896-1914
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    The Promised Land: Settling the West 1896-1914

    By Pierre Berton

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    After the pioneers described in The National Dream, The Last Spike and Klondike came the settlers — a million people who filled a thousand miles of prairie in a single generation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateAug 10, 2011
    ISBN9780385673662
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