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Californian Gold Rush

In 1846 about 10,000 Californios (Hispanics) lived in California, primarily on cattle ranches in what is now the Los Angeles

Thomas Jefferson thought of himself as a man of the frontier and was keenly interested in expanding and exploring the

George Armstrong Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, 5th Dec 1839 – 25th Jun 1876, to Emanuel Henry Custer

In the 1850s government-sponsored surveys to chart the remaining unexplored regions of the West, and to plan possible routes for

To get to the rich new lands of the West Coast, there were two options: some sailed around the southern

The frontier is the margin of undeveloped territory that would comprise the United States beyond the established frontier line. The

The nation was at peace after 1783. The states gave Congress control of the western lands and an effective system