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Western North America was inhabited for millennia by various groups of Native Americans and later served as a frontier to the Spanish Empire, which began colonizing the region starting in the 16th century.
Aug 16, 2016 · Dismantling cherished fables about the Old West and stripping the romance from the history of “Westward Ho,” newer studies have exhumed the human casualties and environmental costs of...
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. [Cattle, horses, and people at the fair with stables in the background] Popular Graphic Arts. The completion of the railroads to the West following the Civil War opened up vast areas of the region to settlement and economic development.
This America West Timeline lists the critical years of the Western American territory's discovery, colonization, and settlement.
The history of the American West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries has acquired a cultural mythos in the literature and cinema of the United States.
This series is a history of the American West in six volumes by prominent western historians. Together the books tell the history of the American West, including issues such as gender, ethnicity, and the environment.
Mar 1, 2019 · David M. Wrobel's new book is the first of a projected two-volume history of the American West since 1890. The author contends that the twentieth-century West “played a major role in shaping the course of the nation's history,” no less than in the earlier “frontier” era that Frederick Jackson Turner so famously wrote about and that ...
History of California before 1900. California State Route 152. California Territory. The Californian (1860s newspaper) The Californian (1880s magazine) Central Pacific Railroad. Chateau de Mores.
Sep 19, 1996 · Lavishly illustrated and based on the finest scholarship, The Oxford History of the American West is the first comprehensive study to do full justice to the rich complexity of this region. It brings together the work of twenty-eight leading western historians who explore this area from a dazzling number of perspectives.
