Westward Expansion

John Wayne in Stagecoach (1939)

John Wayne Monument in Orange County, CA

Ronald Reagan cowboy movie poster, 1953

Westward Expansion Map

Settlers in front of a sod house in Nebraska

Major railroads in 1880 with time zones

Indian Reservations, ca. 1890

Indians hunting buffalo

Indians hunting buffalo on horseback

Cheyenne woman Woxie Haury in ceremonial dress and in wedding portrait

Boys hoeing garden, Tulalip Indian School, ca. 1912

American Horse with children and relatives during an 1882 visit to the Carlisle Indian School.

General George Custer

Sioux Chief Sitting Bull

The Battle of Little Bighorn, 1875

Custer’s last stand, painting

Sioux drawing of the battle of Little Bighorn

Photograph of a Sioux Medicine Man, 1908

Ghost dance, painting

The Battle of Wounded Knee, 1890

Frederick Remington, first moments of the battle

Sitting Bull in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show

1973 Wounded Knee occupation medal

U.S. Presidents, 1877-Present

Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1881James Garfield, 1881Chester Arthur, 1881-1885Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1993Grover Cleveland, 1993-1997William McKinley, 1897-1901Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909William H. Taft, 1909-1913Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921Warren Harding, 1921-1923Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945Harry Truman, 1945-1953Dwight Eisenhower, 1953-1961John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963Lyndon Johnson, 1963-1969Richard Nixon, 1969-1974Gerald Ford, 1974-77Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989George H.W. Bush, 1989-1993William J. Clinton, 1993-2001George W. Bush, 2001-present