From: rattle@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article <103na33o0v3nkf7@news.supernews.com>, sgrimm@fpcc.net says...   
      
      
   >You are generalizing.  Name another mid-western town/city which had a greater   
   im   
   >pact than Chicago on western expansion?   
      
   And you're forgetting what little you apparently   
   know about "westward expansion." Try recalling   
   the cities that were the rendevous points for   
   the wagon trains forming up before crossing   
   the prairies - as just ONE example. And then   
   read up a bit on Mormon history and the town   
   where that faith was virtually evicted from.   
   And on and on - generalizing!!   
      
   And then there is the oldest of the old   
   west trails, the Santa Fe trail. Where   
   was its terminus in the mid-west?   
      
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