The western frontier was a newly acquired asset with unlimited potential for the United States. Rich with mineral resources, fertile land, and overall open space, the frontier was to be prosperous indefinitely, but it was first necessary to determine which action would be initiated. Agriculture was the only true necessity for survival, and with the land, large farms could be created to produce food for the nation. For this reason, farmers and their agricultural agenda …showed first 75 words of 747 total…

…showed last 75 words of 747 total…frontier had the potential to become something beneficial and prosperous to the United States. If managed more carefully and logically, the west could have produced even more that it did during that time period. By giving railroads the initial opportunity, the U.S. failed to take advantage of the raw power it had, in the form of the West. Farmers and their agricultural agenda should have had the precedence in setting up the western frontier