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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 period of imprecise boundaries, and historians' definitions vary.
For example, the Old West subperiod is sometimes used by historians regarding the time from the end of the American Civil War in 1865 to when the Superintendent of the Census, William Rush Merriam, stated the U.S. Census Bureau would stop recording western frontier settlement as part of its census categories after the 1890 U.S. Census.
Early modern period – The chronological limits of this period are open to debate. It emerges from the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in forms such as the Italian Renaissance in the West, the Ming dynasty in the East, and the rise of the Aztecs in the New World.
Indian wars of the American Old West (16 C, 55 P) L. Lewis and Clark Expedition (4 C, 66 P) Louisiana Purchase (4 C, 17 P) Louisiana Territory (3 C, 5 P) M.
Plenty of the "Old West" towns across the U.S. are more than happy to embrace their history and help visitors travel back in time to the 1800s, cowboy hat in hand.
New Perspectives on 'The West'. The West Film Project, WETA-TV, 2001; Dodge City, Kansas 'Cowboy Capital' Fort Dodge, Kansas History by Ida Ellen Rath, 1964 w/ photos; Old West Kansas; Tombstone Arizona History "The American West", BBC Radio 4 discussion with Frank McLynn, Jenni Calder and Christopher Frayling (In Our Time, June 13, 2002)
One page that is dedicated to celebrating photography from history is Old-Time Photos on Facebook. This account shares digitized versions of photos from the late 1800s all the way up to the 1980s.
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