Write an essay addressing how different ethnic groups contributed to the history of the american west in the mid 1800s. consider the contributions of miners, ranchers, homestaders, native americans, and immigrant railroad workers.

Texas’ gulf coastal plains are the western extension of the coastal plain extending from the atlantic ocean to beyond the rio grande. its characteristic rolling to hilly surface covered with a heavy growth of pine and hardwoods extends into east texas. in the increasingly arid west, however, its forests become secondary in nature, consisting largely of post oaks and, farther west, prairies and brushlands.