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A settler explains how the soil in the new land he has settled is of excellent quality. We get an insight into how early settlers built homes from earth blocks. We also see how settlers saw the Plains initially as a desert but how they came to be seen as potential farmland as time and technology moved on, with terrible consequences for the Native Americans. The concept of Manifest destiny is introduced in a meaningful context, and the significance of the railroad (economic, political and psychological), is set up.