American Burial Ground Charles Smith memory making

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American Burial Ground Charles Smith memory makingIn popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. But not everyone reached Oregon and California. Some 6,600 migrants perished along the way and were buried where they fell, often on Indigenous land. As historian Sarah Keyes illuminates, their graves ultimately became the seeds of U. S. expansion. By the 1850s, cholera epidemics, ordinary diseases, and