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    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...
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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...
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  • list of Old West lawmen: notable people who served in various law enforcement positions during the Old West period. List of Arizona Rangers List of cowboys...
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  • of Old West gunfighters, referring to outlaws or lawmen, of the American frontier who gained fame or notoriety during the American Wild West or Old West...
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  • A number of Old West gangs left a lasting impression on American history. While rare, the incidents were retold and embellished by dime novel and magazine...
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  • This is a list of Old West gunfights. Gunfights have left a lasting impression on American frontier history; many were retold and embellished by dime...
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  • (1849–1865) Timeline of the American Old West Daniel Walker Howe. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. Oxford History of the United...
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  • Island Timeline of South Dakota Timeline of the American Old West Timeline of Washington, D.C. Wales Timeline of Cardiff history Timeline of Llanelli...
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  • celebrates the lifestyle of the cowboy on the open range, along the Rocky Mountains, and among the prairies of Western North America. The genre grew from the mix...
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    Timeline of the American Revolution—timeline of the political upheaval culminating in the 18th century in which Thirteen Colonies in North America joined...
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    Unlocking the Past by Madeline DeJournett and Elfreda Cox (May 2007) ghost towns in Stoddard County, Missouri. Ghost towns of the American West Ghost town...
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    Dead man's hand (category American frontier)
    black aces and black eights. The pair of aces and eights, along with an unknown hole card, were reportedly held by Old West folk hero, lawman, and gunfighter...
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    President Garret Hobart dies Timeline of the American Old West History of the United States (1849–1865) History of the United States (1865–1918) Wikimedia...
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  • type of robbery, in which the goal is to steal money or other valuables being carried by trains. Train robberies were common in the American Old West where...
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    Dime novel (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    word old in the names of competing dime novel detectives, such as Old Cap Collier, Old Broadbrim, Old King Brady, Old Lightning, and Old Ferret, among...
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    romanticized stereotypes of cowboys, Plains Indians, army scouts, outlaws, and wild animals that existed in the American West. While some of the storylines and...
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    Boot Hill (category American frontier)
    as in gunfights or by hanging, and not of natural causes. The term became commonplace throughout the Old West, with some Boot Hills becoming famous, such...
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    the monster, subject to relativism, survives in the shadows of the idealized American Dream. Westerns were at their peak of popularity, but with the increase...
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    Territory. It became one of the last boomtowns in the American frontier. The town grew significantly into the mid-1880s as the local mines produced $40...
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    density of 406.2 per square mile (156.8/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 75.87% White, 1.29% African American, 1.39% Native American, 1.20% Asian...
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    Victorio (category Native American people of the Indian Wars)
    of the Warm Springs band of the Tchihendeh (or Chihenne, often called Mimbreño) division of the central Apaches in what is now the American states of...
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    Fast draw (category North American martial arts)
    depictions of gunslingers in the Western genre, which in turn were inspired by famous historical gunfights in the American Old West. In modern times, fast draw...
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    with a population of 21,899 as of the 2020 census. A substantial percentage of its population is Native American, with residents from the Navajo, Hopi, and...
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    Stagecoach (category History of road transport)
    ISBN 9781438961903 "Stagecoaches of the American West – Legends of America". www.legendsofamerica.com. "Our Rhodesian Heritage: How "Wild West" coaches opened up Rhodesia"...
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    Barbed wire (category American inventions)
    all of the open range had been fenced in under private ownership. For this reason, some historians have dated the end of the Old West era of American history...
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    cowboy boots. In the early days of the Old West, it was the bowler hat rather than the slouch hat, center crease (derived from the army regulation Hardee...
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    Sacagawea (category Indigenous explorers of the Americas)
    of the Americas portal Sacagawea's Nickname Timeline of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Journal entries by Clark, Lewis, et al., are brief segments of...
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    This is the timeline of the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the American West, 1803–1806. Jefferson, Thomas (January 18, 1803). "President Thomas Jefferson's...
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  • Cowboy poetry (category Genres of poetry)
    themes of cowboy poetry include:[citation needed] Ranch work and those who perform it Western lifestyle Landscape of the American and Canadian West Cowboy...
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    including the London passenger list showing Joshua to have been 2 years old at the time of his boarding. Drury, William (1986). Norton I, Emperor of the United...
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