The Western History Timeline

The western history timeline covers the vast geographical and temporal area that makes up most of the modern continental United States. This timeline is not a definitive history of the American West; it’s simply an overview of the key events that have marked the region’s development since European exploration began in the fifteenth century CE….

A Western History Timeline

The concept of Western Civilization is one that coalesced into college textbooks and curricula in the United States for the first time in the 1920s. It was an idea whose inventors were determined to rescue the legacy of Europe from the implosion of World War I and to assert that it was distinct and superior…

The Western Trail

The Western Trail was the most famous cattle drive of all time. During the years 1866 to 1884 millions of head of livestock traveled this route to northern stockyards and markets. The cattle were driven on long drives across hundreds of miles of open range – in some cases, going as far north as Montana…