"Any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States... shall be entitled to enter one quarter section or a less quantity of unappropriated public lands... for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation."

"CALIFORNIA! The Land of Gold and Opportunity! Rich farmland available! Mild climate year-round! Fortune awaits the industrious settler! Take the Central Pacific Railroad - the fastest route west!"

"The journey has been harder than we imagined. Little Mary took ill with fever, and we lost two oxen crossing the river. James says the land ahead is worth the struggle, but I wonder if we made the right choice leaving Pennsylvania."

"Your God loves your people and hates mine... How can we be brothers? We are two distinct races with separate origins and separate destinies... When the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe."