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  1. WI: Camels widely-adopted in the American West

    Howdy y’all, long time reader first time poster. This is a very rough concept as of yet, but I’ve had it on the brain and would like to develop it further, thought I would see if anybody has any ideas. Basically: I’m envisioning a version of the American West in which the U.S. Camel Corps was...

  2. Federal seizure of western goldfields in the late 1860s

    The Mining Act of 1872 established American citizens' right to stake mineral claims on the public domain - something that had previously been ambiguous-to-illegal on the federal level despite a few decades' worth of gold rushes in the West. Recently I've come across suggestions in a few sources...

  3. Wild West in a divided America?

    What might the Wild West be like in a divided America? I don't necessarily mean a Confederate victory in the ACW, I just mean a "Divided States of America" scenario, which could theoretically happen a number of different ways.

  4. Slave reparations of forty acres and a mule given west of the Mississippi.

    What if the aborted plan for post-civil war slave reparations of 40 acres and a mule https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_acres_and_a_mule was accomplished by allocating land west of the Mississippi, so as not to anger southern landowners, as was a concern otl? Assuming this alternate plan is...
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