were terrible as things such as disease, depression, or premature death ravaged the land. Life in the frontier would turn out to be cruel, and pioneers would often be misinformed of the situations out west. It was due to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s lecture-essay “Self-Reliance” that influenced the people as at that time, popular literature abounded with portraits of heroes. In the end, settlers were determined men who wanted to create opportunity, but they often died due to being ill-informed. Shaping the…
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