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The events in this timeline occurred primarily in the portion of the modern continental United States west of the Mississippi River, and mostly in the period between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the admission of the last western territories as states in 1912 where most of the frontier was already settled and became urbanized; a few ...
The Old West. Although the “Wild West” was generally defined from 1865 to 1895, many events shaped the American West as a region from ancient times up to 1916. 50,000-5000 B.C. – Paleo-Siberians migrated to North America from Asia via the Bering Strait land bridge. 1500 B.C.-1000 A.D. – Ancient Puebloan culture thrived in the Southwest.
The American Old West, or the Wild West, comprises the history, geography, people, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States, most often referring to the latter half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of the century...
1882 hand-colored map depicting the western half of the continental United States. Western North America was inhabited for millennia by various groups of Native Americans and later served as a frontier to the Spanish Empire, which began colonizing the region starting in the 16th century.
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 ...
American Old West Timeline. This American Old West Timeline lists the critical years of the Western American territory’s discovery, colonization, and settlement.
The events in this timeline occurred primarily in the contiguous portion of the modern United States west of the Mississippi River, and mostly in the period between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the admission of the last mainland states into the Union in 1912.
