Frontier

As the former British Colonies on the east coast became the United States of America, their sights were now set on what lay west. A ludicrously good l...

As the United States advances west, the nature of the land is revealed. What appeared to be a boundless empty terrain was in fact a richly inhabited l...

Mexican-owned Texas offers land and freedom for those white settlers searching for a fresh start but the influx of 'Americans' would be the catalyst f...

The newly acquired territory of California would prove invaluable as the chance discovery of gold unleashes the largest migration in US history and ig...

A race for the railroad system to join the east and west coast beings a new chapter in US dominance and leads to the rise of an American icon: the cow...

As the century draws to a close, the scars of the systematic ethnic cleansing of native peoples, along with US claims on land stretching the span of t...