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Westward Expansion

During the 1840s, Nebraska's Platte River Valley became one of the most heavily traveled migration corridors in American history. Thousands of settlers bound for Oregon, California, and Utah poured through along paths originally blazed by the fur trade. Nebraska itself wasn't the destination — it was the highway, and the Platte Valley's relatively flat terrain made it the lifeline of westward expansion. 

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