Westward Expansion Almanac | The Wild West

• Guns and lawlessness
• The gold rush
• The cowboy frontier
• The cattle boom
• The Cattle Drive
• The wild life of a cattle town
• Dancing Cowboys
• Cowboys and killers
• The Fence Cutter's War
• The end of the Wild West
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The 150-year-long conquest of the American West was one of the most colorful eras of American history. From the moment that small bands of settlers set out across the Appalachian Mountains in the 1750s to the closing of the frontier around 1890, Americans...