| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - West of the Great Lakes was a huge unsettled territory in 1840, owned by nobody, except in the minds of a few London businessmen who possessed something called the Hudson's Bay Company: one of the the biggest illegal land grabs in history, founded by a royal ripoff artist named Prince Rupert. (Hey, who the hell ever elected him?) After disgracing himself back in England by helping lose the Civil W
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