American West | History revision for GCSE, IGCSE, IB and AS/A2 History | Mr Allsop History

American West

The Louisiana Purchase

On 30th April 1803, the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was concluded.

The Book of Mormon

Publishing the Book of Mormon

Samuel Colt revolving firearm

Samuel Colt and the birth of the revolver

The Donner Party’s ill-fated migration to California

The Gettysburg Address

Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at the end of the Civil War

Levi Strauss and the invention of riveted blue jeans

The invention of barbed wire and its impact on the American West

The Battle of Little Bighorn and Custer’s Last Stand

Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett