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American West and Native Americans

Articles on pre-Revolutionary American Indian and frontier Western culture

Articles on pre-Revolutionary American Indian and frontier Western culture


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Reasons for Westward Expansion

What were the reasons for Westward expansion? Ever since the first pioneers settled in the United States at the East , the country has been expanding westward. When President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from the French government in 1803, it doubled the size of the existing United States.…

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Lost Treasures of the American West

The old American West was a wild place. It was an era full of cowboys, gunslingers, outlaws, and wars. The European settlers driving the expansion into the west faced many hardships. They had to force their way to the Pacific Ocean by driving the Native Americans away from their lands.…

The Cattle Industry In The American West

The cattle industry in the United States in the nineteenth century due to the young nation's abundant land, wide-open spaces, and rapid development of railroad lines to transport the beef from western ranches to population centers in the Midwest and the East Coast. Beginnings of the Cattle Industry The Europeans…

Mountain Men in the American West

The lives of mountain men in the American West were ones of scarcity, poverty, and bare sustenance. Living in the wild, he was in constant danger from starvation, dehydration, freezing cold, burning heat, wild animals and Indians. The fashion for wearing fur hats in the early nineteenth century meant that…

American West – The California Gold Rush

In the early 1840s, California was a distant outpost that few Americans had seen. John Sutter (left) was a Swiss emigrant who had come to California in 1839 with the idea of building a vast empire. At the end of 1847, Sutter sent a group of men, including James Marshall,…

American West – White Man’s Opinion of the Plains Indians

As the population of America grew, so people began to move away from the cities and towns onto the Plains. At first the Indians welcomed the settlers; it was their belief that the land should be shared. However, problems soon began. The whites killed buffalo so there was not enough…

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American West – Manifest Destiny

"(It is) ..our manifest destiny to over spread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty" In 1845 these words were written by John O'Sullivan, a democrat leader and editor of the New York newspaper 'The…

American West – The Great American Desert

The Great American Desert was the name given, in the first half of the nineteenth century, to the area west of the Mississippi river. At the time, the area was only inhabited by tribes of native American Indians. White Americans considered it to be unfit for habitation. As people moved…

American West – Timeline

Date Summary Event 6th April 1830 Mormons founded Joseph Smith founded the Mormon religion. Smith claimed that, after seeing a vision of an angel called Moroni, he discovered some hidden gold plates bearing inscriptions. The translation of the inscriptions was published in 1830 in the 'Book of Mormon'. The official…

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Native American Tribes and Nations: A History

For more information on Native American tribes and other counter-intuitive facts of ancient and medieval history, see Anthony Esolen's The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization.   There were many different Native American tribes and those with similar characteristics formed a main tribe or nation. Each had its own language, religion and…

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