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Scottsbluff Public Schools - Every Child, Every Day
Course Description
This course is an examination of historical issues and events involving America west of the Mississippi River, including an examination of the concepts west and frontier themselves. Central themes in the course include an examination of who migrated to the west and why, the results of that migration and the impact of that migration and the events surrounding it on the United States as whole. Examples of topics covered in the course include: the history and influence of the Spanish and French; cultural interaction and conflict between Europeans explorers/settlers and indigenous peoples; early explorers and emigrants; cowboys, outlaws and violence ; children, marriage and families; farming, settlement and homesteading; and the West of the imagination.
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