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The American West (formerly titled The West) is a limited-event American television docu-series detailing the history of the Western United States in the period from 1865 to 1890.
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Aug 16, 2016 · From what Turner and his contemporaries referred to as the “Great American West” then sprang the sources of American exceptionalism and American greatness.
The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
The Western United States, also called the American West, the Western States, the Far West, and the West, is the region comprising the westernmost U.S. states. As American settlement in the U.S. expanded westward, the meaning of the term the West changed.
Dec 15, 2009 · The westward expansion of the United States is one of the defining themes of 19th-century American history, but it is not just the story of Jefferson’s expanding “empire of liberty.”
The American West, 1865-1900. The completion of the railroads to the West following the Civil War opened up vast areas of the region to settlement and economic development.
Defining the West. Geographically speaking, we at the Bill Lane Center define the American West as the United States west of the 100th meridian, Canada west of Ontario, and all of Mexico, with open arms toward the broader Pacific region.
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