Generally pioneers traveling the Overland Trails in the 1840s and 1850s were __________
A) constantly attacked by Indians
B) likely to experience very little dissension
C) parts of organized westward-moving communities
D) traveling alone for safety and speed
Answer: C
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A. largely focused on southern society. B. critical of the loss of American individualism. C. mostly ignored during his lifetime. D. completely ignored in Europe after his death. E. primarily sad and macabre.