Age of Western Expansion
At some time in American history, every part of the United States except the easternmost region qualifed as "the West," the last frontier of settlement. As the i...
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Trails West
Between 1800 and 1870, nearly half a million Americans set out across the frontier on the many trails that led west from settled America. Whether they took the Santa Fe Trail, the Oregon-C...
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The Wild West
The 150-year-long conquest of the American West was one of the most colorful eras of American history. From the moment that small bands of settlers set out across the Appalachian Mountai...
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No single group of people in all of American history have more written about them than the cowboys of the Old West. They are glorified in song and in novels. Hollywood has made hundreds of movies abou...
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Age of Western Expansion
Trails West
Cowboys in the Old West