The Wild West

(Period: Growth and Transformation)

Synopsis:

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Historical synopsis courtesy of A Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times by Department of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and the former United States Information Agency (1953-1999).

Key People:

• Wild West - a term that referred to the Western part of the country in the mid 1800s and its romanticized cowboy, free-range culture.