west (u.s.)

Answers over 100 questions you wanted to know about westward expansion.

What is a ghost town? Why do we call the Old West wild? What are cowboys? Who was Billy the Kid? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts about the American West.

In 1860, eleven-year-old Annie, who lives at the Red Buttes Pony Express station in the Nebraska Territoryasks Pony Express rider Billy Cody to help her find the person responsible for sabotaging her favorite pony Magpie.

Pru, friend of Spirit the mustang, is worried about doing her clown act at El Circo dos Grillos when another girl claims she can do better.

This magnificent arch rises on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri. The nation's tallest monument is the centerpiece of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, honoring Thomas Jefferson's vision of westward expansion. This magnificent arch rises on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri. The nation's tallest monument is the centerpiece of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, honoring Thomas Jefferson's vision of westward expansion. Despite its controversial beginning, this amazing structure is now a national treasure and symbol of the nation's reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Describes the lives and experiences of women in the nineteenth-century American west.

A collection of digital photos, clip art, sounds, and audio/video clips.

The wild west.