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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 City in Texas: A History (University of Texas Press, 2015) 342 pp. Pierce, Bessie Louise. A History of Chicago from Town to Ciry 1848-1871 Vol II (1940) Pierce, Bessie Louise. A History of Chicago, Volume III: The Rise of a Modern City, 1871-1893 (1957) excerpt; Reiff, Janice L., Ann Durkin Keating and James R. Grossman, eds.
The locus of wealth in the West shifted to Constantinople and to the ascendant Islamic civilization with its major cities Baghdad, [b] Cairo, and Córdoba. [ 38 ] From the 9th through the end of the 12th century, Constantinople , capital of the Byzantine Empire , was the largest and wealthiest city in Europe, with a population approaching 1 ...
First city founded by Europeans, although not continuously inhabited, in Puerto Rico. Abandoned in 1521 with the removal of the capital to San Juan. 1510 Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien: Urabá: Colombia First city founded by Europeans on the continent of South America. 1510 Nombre de Dios: Colon: Panama
New York City experienced the largest total population drop by a city up to this point in American history, recording 820,000 fewer people in 1980 than ten years before. The city government was crippled by severe financial strains and near bankruptcy as a result of its declining tax base during the 1970s, until being bailed out by the federal ...
San Jose, California becomes the first city west of the Rocky Mountains with civic electric lighting when a 237-foot-tall moonlight tower is illuminated downtown. [177] 1882: Mar 18: Morgan Earp is shot and killed while playing billiards in Tombstone, Arizona. His assassination is linked to his involvement in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Mar 20
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. The image of the cowboy , the homesteader , and westward expansion took real events and transmuted them into a myth of the west which has shaped much of American popular culture since the ...
Military history of cities in the United States (11 C) ... Histories of cities in West Virginia (3 P) Histories of cities in Wisconsin (3 C, 1 P)