Problem
According to The American Yawp in Chapter 17, "The history of the late-nineteenth-century West is not a simple story. What some touted as a triumph-the westward expansion of American authority-was for others a tragedy."
Do you think it was inevitable or avoidable that "what some touted as a triumph - westward expansion of American authority" would become "for others a tragedy"? In other words, could this American "triumph" in West in the late nineteenth century have occurred without a resulting tragedies? Why or why not?