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This timeline of the American Old West is a chronologically ordered list of events significant to the development of the American West as a region of the continental United States. The term "American Old West" refers to a vast geographical area and lengthy time period of imprecise boundaries, and historians' definitions vary.
Historians have debated at length as to when the frontier era began, when it ended, and which were its key sub-periods. [3] 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 ...
The Old West is a series of books about the history of the American Old West era, published by Time-Life Books from 1973 through 1980. Each book focused on a different topic specific for the era, such as cowboys, American Indians, gamblers and gunfighters.
Plenty of the "Old West" towns across the U.S. are more than happy to embrace their history and help visitors travel back in time to the 1800s, cowboy hat in hand.
New Perspectives on 'The West'. The West Film Project, WETA-TV, 2001; Dodge City, Kansas 'Cowboy Capital' Fort Dodge, Kansas History by Ida Ellen Rath, 1964 w/ photos; Old West Kansas; Tombstone Arizona History "The American West", BBC Radio 4 discussion with Frank McLynn, Jenni Calder and Christopher Frayling (In Our Time, June 13, 2002)
Indian wars of the American Old West (16 C, 55 P) L. Lewis and Clark Expedition (4 C, 66 P) Louisiana Purchase (4 C, 17 P) Louisiana Territory (3 C, 5 P) M.
One page that is dedicated to celebrating photography from history is Old-Time Photos on Facebook. This account shares digitized versions of photos from the late 1800s all the way up to the 1980s.
This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of study. ... (1865–1877) (Some of this time period is known as the "Old West".) Gilded Age ...