re: #195 CleverToad

And the Western myth that keeps insisting rugged individualists settled the Frontier West all by their ownselves — never mind the Homestead Act, the cavalry, the artificially low prices for the extraction industries that persist to this day, the ridiculously low grazing fees for BLM land, etc.

The Transcontinental railroad too. I don’t doubt that the people who settled the West worked hard but they were not the rugged individualists that folklore makes them out to be. Kind of reminds me of how Texans have an over-inflated opinion about their role in history oto.