Go to your local Public Library and check out the Tim-Life series - 'The Old West' - it'll give you a good idea of the various activities of the era.
"Back East', folks were busy trying to rebuild their pre-war lives, on both sides of the conflict - they were farming and manufactiring and reestablishing 'normalcy', and oddly enough, that took up a helluva lot of time.
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