This book presents a summary of the landmark events that took place during the occupation of the American West in the 19th century. Get to know the main historical facts of that period; the first exploratory expedition that took 28 months covering 12,800 km to discover what lay between the territory of the initial 13 colonies of English colonization and the Pacific Ocean; the western occupation caravans; the marches of the indigenous people who resisted the occupation of their lands by the white man, and what was one of the most ingenious means of transporting correspondence of all times. In short, what cinema left immortalized in western movies, such as the Old West period.
This volume is part of the Travel Guide to the Old West collection, which, in addition to tourist attractions, also presents those with the historical context of the Conquest of the West in order to allow tourists to travel, and at the same time discover important places and events from the period of the North American history, called the Old West.