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When the Sioux migrated to the Great Plains area, they most certainly came across the the Badlands in their discovery. The name “Badlands” is derived from the Lakota phrase makȟóšiča, meaning Land of Bad Spirits.  Today, some Lakota believe that the Badlands are a place to be avoided because it is where bad spirits exist. This paper will discuss the geographic location,  geological formation, Lakota legends,  reasons the site is visited, time or seasons to visit and Lakota stargazing associated with the site. When applicable, Lakota words will be provided.

The Wild West is known for its cowboys and gunslingers. In the Wild West the pistol

Duke Lee once said, “This town ain’t big enough for the two of us.” and it became one of the most iconic western saying of all time. The old west was full of outlaws, gangs, murderers, thieves, and lawmen who either broke the rules, or enforced them. Outlaws of the wild west influenced American culture in numerous ways. The three outlaws listed below are the most notorious and gruesome of them all. Take a journey through history and look at what these outlaws did for American society.

One of the chief culprits, he concludes, is Wyoming's manufacture of a false history around cowboy mythology. While the bucking horse is one of Wyoming's most identifiable symbols (it's on every Wyoming license plate), Western notes that Wyoming's key early settlers were, in fact, wealthy merchants who, from the beginning, had an

Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol' Boys Defined a State. Brooks Blevins. Fayetteville, AR. 2009. 242 pages

California?s Indians are popularly viewed as static remnants of ancient Stone-Age peoples. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Before and after the advent of whites in their lands, native cultures constantly changed and adapted to shifting social and ecological conditions. (Rice, 31)

Following the end of the United States’ Civil War, new territories had becomes states, notably what is now known as the West. The West, iconized by its Cowboys, gunfights, and horses in the years that followed the Civil War, made its way to the silver screen as one of the first genres of movies to be produced. The genre is popularized as a “Western” and is devoted to telling the

Many have romanticized views of what the West was like. The historian Robert Utley wrote, “historical reality lies somewhere between the extremes”. As one examines everything in between, what emerges from the comparison of Friedman’s work and that of frontier justice, is a question of what were the causes of violence in the West. Before the frontier closed, it could be described at times as a lawless land influenced by the lawful law and the lawless law. The causes of this violence are as diverse as the West itself. Several factors came together in a sort of perfect

William Cronon another new historian talked about western history and how western history lead us to today’s environmental history. He also brought up that frontier is an environment and means a free land, its a place, culture. If the West be limited to process it is impossible to talk about western history and as Cronon mentioned,” If the frontier represented only one kind of plenty, then it ought to be possible to rewrite history which in one rather Turnerian sense is actually the environmental history of North America in term of transition not from free to occupied land”( Cronon, p. 11). Donal Worster another new westerner describes the West more than just a process. The West “ begins with Dajotas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas” ( Worster , p.13). So the West it can only be defined as the West when only be along with South and North. The West is a geographical location and its a region. Its not just only a process. New historians agree on that the West is the place rather than process. Place means location which bring culture, assimilation, knowledge and civilization. The old West was a place like other regions that had rich, poor, powerful, slave, educated and uneducated

In the writing piece written by Philip Deloria, titled “Polarized Tribes: Colorado, Wyoming and Montana,” the author argues that those three states are very dissimilar when comparing them to their other state counterparts. With the imagination and identity that surrounds these three areas, I argue, even though Philip Deloria states that those places are quite different from the other states in the western region, that they are not all that contrasting when examining the other states and their specific religious patterns.

Hämäläinen & Truett provide an overview regarding the beginning of borderlands history which supports the reader in the understanding of the root system of such area and how it has expanded. Such expansion has

            Western, Sam. Pushed Off the Mountain, Sold Down the River: Wyoming’s Search for Its Soul.

Brian Levack, Edward Muir, Micheal Maas, Meredith Veldman. The West: Encounters and Transformations, Consise Edition. Pearson: Upper Saddle River, 2009. Print

Anthropologist Lowell J. Bean has described the California Indians as “non-political, ethnic nationalities.” Tribes consisted of “triblets”, with each triblet including a group of neighboring villages ranging from hundreds to several thousands individuals. Social classes almost were non-existent, except in the northwest where personal wealth was a common practice.

American history teaches us that, going west has always been a regarded as progression. From the earliest settlers to the “new land” to the idea of Manifest Destiny, progressive movement and thinking has always traveled west. The west is always thought of as being more liberal more free. “True West” A compelling play written by Sam Shepard, developed characters that “struggle to define and assert their identities.” <1702> By using the idea of going west Shepard’s play’s “ present a picture of America torn between its idealistic values and the painful realties of frontier paved over for a parking lot, and cowboys enclosed in a move and television screen.”<1702> By comparing and contrasting the lead characters Austin and Lee, Shepard shows the reader that “going west” does not always mean a change in the right direction.