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Etulain, Richard W. Re-Imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art. (U of Arizona Press. 1996). Gibson, Arrell M. The Santa Fe and Taos Colonies: Age of the Muses, 1900–1942. (U of New Mexico Press, 1988). Lehan, Richard. Quest West: American Intellectual and Cultural Transformations. (Louisiana State UP, 2014).
The American frontier, also known as the "Old West", 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 Irish in the 1790 census were mostly Scots Irish. The French were mostly Huguenots. The total U.S. Catholic population in 1790 is estimated at 40,000 or 1.6%, perhaps a low count due to prejudice. The Native American Indian population inside territorial U.S. 1790 boundaries was less than 100,000.
For example, the Old West subperiod is sometimes used by historians regarding the time from the end of the American Civil War in 1865 to when the Superintendent of the Census, William Rush Merriam, stated the U.S. Census Bureau would stop recording western frontier settlement as part of its census categories after the 1890 U.S. Census.
Indeed, the 1892 New York state census contained only seven questions — name, sex, age, color (race), country of birth, citizenship status, and occupation. [18] Meanwhile, the censuses from 1905 to 1925 asked for relationships of people to each other but also only asked for a country of birth. [ 15 ]
This is a list of the largest cities in each U.S. state and territory by historical population, as enumerated every decade by the United States Census, starting with the 1790 Census. Data for the tables below is drawn from U.S. Census Bureau reports. For the 1990 Census and earlier, the primary resource is the 2005 Working Paper number POP ...
The last free version, the Bicentennial Edition, [1] appeared in two volumes in 1975 and is now available online. [ 2 ] The current commercial version [ 3 ] deals with Population , Work and Welfare, Economic Structure and Performance, Economic Sectors and Governance & International Relations, respectively, in five volumes.
The 1900 United States census, conducted by the Census Office on June 1, 1900, [1] determined the resident population of the United States to be 76,212,168, an increase of 21.01% from the 62,979,766 persons enumerated during the 1890 census. It was the last census to be conducted before the founding of the permanent United States Census Bureau.