"Once-friendly western tribes watched with mounting anger as emigrants helped themselves to Indian land and game. “The Platte valley is ours, and we do not intend to give it away. We have let the Whiteman have it so that he could pass, but he has gone over it so often now that he claims it and thinks he owns it. But it is still ours, and always has been ours.” Most of the overland trail traffic ended in 1869 with completion of the transcontinental railroad, which provided a faster, safer way west." - Jim Carson