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Ishi, called "the last wild Indian", surrenders near Oroville, California. [230] 1912: Jan 6: New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. Feb 14: Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state. It is the last state to be admitted to the Union during the Old West era. [231] Aug 24: The District of Alaska is organized into the Territory of Alaska ...
This period includes historical events synonymous with the archetypical Old West or "Wild West" such as violent conflict arising from encroaching settlement into frontier land, the removal and assimilation of natives, consolidation of property to large corporations and government, vigilantism, and the attempted enforcement of laws upon outlaws ...
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)
The Old West is a series of books about the history of the American Old West era, published by Time-Life Books from 1973 through 1980. Each book focused on a different topic specific for the era, such as cowboys , American Indians , gamblers and gunfighters .
3. Bandera, Texas. Nicknamed the "Cowboy Capital of the World," this Wild West town in southern Texas was a staging ground for the last cattle drives of the 1800s.
This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of study. ... (1865–1877) (Some of this time period is known as the "Old West".) Gilded Age ...
The Old Spanish Trail from Santa Fe, in Mexican New Mexico Territory to Los Angeles, in Mexican Alta California, developed in 1829–1830 to support the trade of New Mexican wool products for California horses and mules and carried parties of fur traders and emigrants from New Mexico to Southern California.
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