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In the 1860's America was a divided
nation. The Civil War tore the country's spirit apart and mountains,
desert and wild rivers divided the country geographically. At a time
when the nation desperately needed a symbol of unity, Congress
authorized the building of a railroad that would make the country
one.
The Union Pacific built from the East. The Central Pacific
built from the West. It was one of the most extraordinary
engineering events the country had ever seen. Construction crews
built across hundreds of miles of desert, pushed into mountains as
high as 8,000 feet and crossed one river alone 31 times.
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In the 1860's America was a divided nation. The Civil War tore the country's spirit apart, and mountains, deserts and wild rivers divided the country geographically. At a time when the nation desperately needed a symbol of unity, Congress authorized the building of a railroad that would make the country one.
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In the early 1860's, America's railway system went only as far West as Missouri. It would be another nine years before the country was joined together for the first time--by rail--when the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific lines met at Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869.
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In the early 1860's America was involved in the Civil War and fewer official games were played during that time. However, Union troops expanded the game's popularity by playing games in parts of the country where it had never before been played.
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![Dances With Wolves [1991]](http://retrieverimages.lycos.com/images/1/8/6/1860s-america/i/001.jpg)
A magnificient film depicting the 1860's America. While the country is ravaged by a bloody civil war; the wild and vast great plains are invaded by the marauding army and settlers. The pasture and the local people is massacred. The animals are killed carelessly for profits, the Sioux (in the film) is forced away from their ancestral grounds. The film depicts the life of an officer who is fed up with the capitalist way of life. Meaningless and wandering he comes across with a civilisation more simple but more sophisticated than his.
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