The latter half of the 19th century saw the "golden age" of the ... These photos were taken across the American West between the late 1800s and the early 1900s.

Launched in 1995, the American West is the first overnight ... passengers to go ashore anywhere along the river, much as the 19th-century vessels did.

in the same way that the 'Wild West' conjures competing memories and histories of the American West in the 19th century. Manifest Destiny refers to a belief in a preordained right to explore, colonize ...

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...