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What is the consensus as to the time frame of the Old West?

by | Mar 6, 2010 | Inside History

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What is the consensus as to the time frame of the Old West? Stan Hutchison Sturgis, South Dakota The term “Old West” is in the eyes of the beholder. It is generally defined as the period from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to circa 1900. Others viewed the term differently. Historian Frederick Jackson Turner presented his famous thesis in 1893 declaring the closing of the frontier. For a Texan, it could have begun with the colonization of Texas in the 1820s. To an Alaskan it could have ende


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