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Chaco Canyon was the place where the Anasazi culture thrived. The origin of the meaning Anasazi comes from an ancient Navajo phrase referring to the people who occupied the four corners region. The Anasazi are some of the ancestors of the current Native American indians of the same area. The Anasazi lived in the Chaco Canyon area in the second Pueblo Phase. This phase is separated into three phases: Early Bonito (850 to 1040 AD), Classic Bonito (1040 to 1100 AD), and Late Bonito (1100 to 1140…

It is the 1880s. The civil war has been over for 15 years. The economic conditions in town I live in have deteriorated, and I am struggling to make ends meet. I’m deciding to go west where there is plenty of land and plenty of opportunities, so I’m going to be a farmer. In the west I have to face opportunities and difficulties. In the west the farmers had to go through many things to get by. Depending on where they lived in the west, farmers were continually working hard every day to maintain…

I start my trip from the location of frenzied outfitting activity throughout the 1840s and early 1850s, Independence (Missouri) was the jumping-off point for the Santa Fe and Oregon trails. The town includes several historic buildings, monuments and Independence Spring. As the place of convergence of early routes from the Mississippi Valley, this square was the last significant point of supply until the mid-1840s, when Westport also became an outfitting town. When I visited Independence in 1846,…

Whistler is a deluxe city that is located in a valley between two mountains. Our city is 161.7 km2 and has over 30,000 hectares of protected forest with a lot of evergreen trees and wild flowers. We are near British Columbia’s capital Victoria and the biggest ocean in the world. This city is the home to about 10,000 permanent residents. We were the host of the 2010 winter Olympics and for our world class mountains as well as ski resorts. This city is blessed to have all these different physical…

East of the Andeas between Napo and Curarary rivers deep in the rainforests there is a tribe with many different names. Some of the names consist of Huaorani, Waorani, Waodani, and the Aucas. The Huaorani are about the size of New Jersey. These warriors are known for their brutality towards outsiders and themselves, their unique lifestyle, and their survival succession. It was found that 42% of population loss as a whole were caused by Huaorani killing other Huaorani with 54% male and 39%…

Carved into the sides of cliffs in Mesa Verde National Park are what has come to be known as Cliff Dwellings. However, a more appropriate name would be cliff houses in a cliff village. The rooms range from small storage areas to entire communities of intertwined living spaces sometimes carved into the sides of cliffs. The Cliff Dwellings are believed to have been built by the Ancestral Puebloans (“Cliff Dwellings”), aka Anasazi and Pueblo Indians. This shift in the name of these people…

“Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations”. Josiah Strong was the man who said this. And even though he was talking about other countries expanding westward, this quote can be applied to the United States during its expansion to the west. In the early 1800s much of the United States had yet to be discovered. Many people, including Mountain Men, Miners…

The American West by Stephen Aron discusses the author’s research on America’s history and expansion into the western part of the United States. After Columbus discovered what he viewed as a new world in 1492, explorers began to venture into the country. These first explorers had the intention of looking for resources, but as time went by they started to settle permanently. Colonies in the eastern United States became established and the growing country faced mounting pressures to start…

Geography Utah borders Arizona on the south, Colorado to the east, Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, and Nevada to the west. It has no ocean,…

The American West before its conquest and establishment was a metaphorical ideology formulated by the American government within the Young America movement. In an attempt to encourage pioneers towards the frontier and to “Go West”, the United States explored the powerful notion of Manifest Destiny, creating the perception that the undiscovered land was given to America through support of Providence. This ideology and its strict adherence during settlement, poses the question: Did manifest…