Then there was the question of whether dogs belonged in the city at all.
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Rachel Sugar,
Curbed,
8 Apr. 2026
The frontier myth—and its core belief that the West belonged only to white Americans—had become a national ideology by the 1880s and ’90s, ushering in an age of oppression and migration restriction.
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