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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 ...
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.
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 ...
The American West takes more than its fair share of attention in the world’s imagination — unless you’re talking square footage, and then the West gets exactly its fair share. Diverse and ...
The American West (formerly titled The West) [1] is a limited-event American television docu-series detailing the history of the Western United States in the period from 1865 to 1890. The series was executively produced by Robert Redford , Stephen David and Laura Michalchyshyn with Sundance Productions and aired for eight episodes on AMC from ...
Native American displacement and settler land grabs over the course of early U.S. history manufactured a new and rigid racial order not only for the Agua Caliente but for hundreds of other Native ...
Pages in category "History of the American West" The following 120 pages are in this category, out of 120 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Yellowstone National Park is symbolic of the American West to many. It became the world’s first national park when President Ulysses Grant signed it into existence in 1872. Most Yellowstone ...