Following the establishment of the Governor-Generalship of Turkestan in 1867, the Russian military governor attempted to introduce long-staple American varieties to this region to provide an alternative source
military and Native peoples. As evidenced by the Plains Wars, this was a costly way for the United States to acquire land, in terms of both lives and financial expense. Government officials came to believe that assimilation was the safest and most economically efficient way to deal with “...