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Transcontinental railroad workers attacked by Native Americans

Cheyenne Indians attacking workers building the transcontinental railroad on the Great Plains, 1867.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Transcontinental railroad observed by Native Americans

Native Americans getting their first view of the transcontinental railroad, 1860s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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HSET2A-00108

Guide leading a wagon train to the Platte River onf the Oregon Trail.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by Frederic Remington

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