Spanish-speaking communities scattered throughout the Southwest are also transformed by the arrival of Anglo-American immigrants. Despite the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo's guarantee of equal citizenship, there is widespread discrimination against Me...
Like generations of immigrants before them, the Chinese cross the Pacific looking for a better life than they could hope to find in their homeland. Relatively few arrive in California before the Gold Rush, but after 1848 the numbers increase dramati...
After the Civil War millions of new settlers crowd into the West from eastern parts of the United States. Most of the new settlers are native born, but over two million are European-born immigrants. The federal government plays a major role in this ...
To many 19h century Americans the West is a vast untamed frontier, a place were rugged pioneers are carving out a new social order. In reality the Great Plains of the United States has been a meeting ground for thousands of years, a place of converg...
Indian tribes inhabited Western lands long before other groups begin to venture into the territory, some since their ancestors crossed the Bering Straits 12.000-14.000 B.C. Others like the Cherokees and Creeks are forcible pushed westward from their...