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The James–Younger Gang commits the first train robbery in the history of the West by derailing a locomotive of the Rock Island Line west of Adair, Iowa and stealing $3,000 from the express safe and passengers on board. [149] Dec "My Western Home", a poem by Dr. Brewster M. Higley, is first published in an issue of the Smith County Pioneer.
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 ...
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)
The Jersey Lilly, Judge Roy Bean's saloon in Langtry, Texas, c. 1900 A Western saloon is a kind of bar particular to the Old West.Saloons served customers such as fur trappers, cowboys, soldiers, lumberjacks, businessmen, lawmen, outlaws, miners, and gamblers.
The Old Spanish Trail from Santa Fe, in Mexican New Mexico Territory to Los Angeles, in Mexican Alta California, developed in 1829–1830 to support the trade of New Mexican wool products for California horses and mules and carried parties of fur traders and emigrants from New Mexico to Southern California.
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.
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 .
The frontier myth or myth of the West is one of the influential myths in ... New Meaning in Images of the Old West." Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 42, no ...