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A New Look at the Great Plains
To most Americans the Great Plains are the Great Flyover, or maybe the Great Drivethrough. Viewed from a window seat the plains seem nearly devoid of interest, something to get across enroute to someplace far...
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Views of the West
After the Civil War, the United States government commissioned several surveys of the American West. Photography was widely used to document the region's unusual geography, and it was this visual evidence that spurred Congress to create the national park system.
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All images are from the Gilder Lehrman Collection
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Landing of Henrick Hudson, 1609
![Recens Edita totius Novi Belgii [New Netherland - New York], 1730. (Gilder Lehrm](http://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/aggregate-208x148/content-images/03583_0.jpg "Recens Edita totius Novi Belgii [New Netherland - New York], 1730. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)")
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De Soto’s discovery of the Mississippi, 1541
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Landing of Columbus, 1492
![Novi Belgi Novaeque Angliae [New Netherland and New England], 1682.](http://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/aggregate-208x148/content-images/03582.jpg "Novi Belgi Novaeque Angliae [New Netherland and New England], 1682 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)")
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Late seventeenth-century map of the Northeast, 1682
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Henry Knox’s Order of March to Trenton, 1776
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Stephen Austin’s contract to bring settlers to Texas, 1825
