Historians talked about westward expansion after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the political reasons for traveling west. They also discussed Kit Carson and other mountain men, and the impact ...

Yale University history professor Ned Blackhawk and Patricia Limerick of the Center of the American West discussed the interactions between Native Americans and white settlers in the 19th century ...

And the author's sympathetic and thoughtful essay on Kit Carson ruminates on the moral challenges raised by westward expansion. Readers interested in the Old West will be rewarded.

He's concerned that the vandalism will affect the image of the city. The statue was first installed in 1913 to honor Carson's role in Westward expansion.

In this lesson, students learn about the life of Kit Carson, a famous frontiersman from the 1800s. They then sift through a series of statements about Kit Carson to untangle fact and myth. While ...

Robert Morgan's ambition in writing Lions of the West was "to create a living sense of the westward expansion of the United States through brief biographies of some of the men involved." This plan ...

TAOS, N.M. — Sitting in the spare, chilly front room of the house that Kit Carson bought for his 14-year-old bride, writer Hampton Sides pondered the complexity of one of the West’s most ...

The trail passed through Utah and Southern Nevada. Bauer said memorializing early settlers by placing their names on public buildings romanticizes the westward expansion of the U.S.

MMS eighth graders took on the roles of witnesses, prosecutors and defense attorneys – the culmination of several months spent studying law, public speaking and westward expansion in their ...