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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 ...
1882 hand-colored map depicting the western half of the continental United States. 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 ...
The journey to the west was pleasant, but there were dangers and challenges along the route. There were diseases: cholera, measles, smallpox, and dysentery. Children were crushed under the covered wagon wheels, people drowned in rivers, were lost, starved, killed by Native Americans (very few settlers), froze to death, trampled by buffalo, or ...
Jack DeMattos (talk · contribs) Experienced professional writer of the Wild West, specifically interested in Gunfighters and Lawmen; Failosopher (talk · contribs) (History of Ghost towns and gunslingers!) Mike Searson (talk · contribs) Professional author of the Old West, people and firearms
Cody was a showman that looked backwards at the West. He was trying to epitomize the West and the frontier hero as a time that should be remembered and enjoyed. Cody helped to make the image that he wanted. He did through newspapers, dime novels, and his stage shows, which eventually turned into the Wild West Show. [32]
Located at 207 W. Grand in Ponca City, OK The Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West Show wagons Pawnee Bill and Zack Miller on horseback in Oklahoma. The Millers' neighbor Major Gordon W. Lillie, who performed as Pawnee Bill, motivated the Millers to produce a Wild West show of their own.
Wild West Guns (Mobile) 2011: Mobile phone: Gameloft: From the same publisher but different to the 2008/2009 versions. 2011 mobile port was a 2D top-down action-adventure. Wild West Online: Gunfighter: 2008: Windows, Mac: Tenderfoot Games: Free-to-play multiplayer online dueling game. Spun off from Wild West Online MMO. Wild Western: 1982 ...
Articles relating to the Western, espionage, and science fiction television series The Wild Wild West and its adaptations. Set during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877), the series followed Secret Service agents James West (Robert Conrad) and Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin) as they foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over part or all of the United ...