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The American West is an evocative term that conjures up images of cowboys and Indians, covered wagons, sheriffs and outlaws, and endless prairies as well as contemporary images ranging from national parks to the oil, aerospace, and film industries. In addition, the West encompasses not only the past and present of the area west of the Mississippi but also the frontier as it moved across each of the fifty American states, offering the promise of freedom and a better life to pioneers and settlers in every era. This authoritative, comprehensive encyclopedia is a rich source of information about these many characteristics of the American West, real and imaginary, old and new, stretching from coast to coast and throughout the countrys history and culture. The encyclopedia, a thoroughly revised and expanded version of Howard Lamars acclaimed twenty-year-old Readers Encyclopedia of the American West, consists of entries in alphabetical order by more than 300 contributors--Publisher description.;Snake River -- Snow, Eliza Roxcy -- Sod house -- Sohon, Gustavus -- Sonnichsen, Charles Leland -- Sonoma Mission -- Sonora, California -- Sonoran Desert -- Sorenson, Elias -- South Carolina, settlement of -- South Dakota -- South Pass -- Southern Pacific Railroad -- Southwest Territory -- Spalding, Henry Harmon -- Spanish Americans -- Spanish conspiracy -- Spanish language in the Southwest -- Spanish rule in the Mississippi Valley -- Spanish-American War -- Sparks, John -- Spicer, Edward Holland -- Spokane Indians -- Sports and pastimes -- Spur Ranch -- Spurs -- Squatter club -- St. Clair, Arthur -- St. Joseph, Missouri -- St. Louis, Missouri -- St. Paul -- St. Vrain, Ceran De Hault De Lassus de -- Stagecoach -- Stanford, Leland -- Stanley, John Mix -- Stark Museum of Art -- Starr, Belle [Myra Belle Shirley] -- Steamboat -- Steffens, [Joseph] Lincoln -- Stegner, Wallace -- Steinbeck, John -- Stetson hat -- Steunenberg, Frank -- Stevens, Isaac Ingalls -- Stevenson, Edward Augustus -- Stevenson, Matilda Coxe -- Stewart, William Morris -- Still, William Grant -- Stockton, Robert Field -- Stone, Barton W -- Stone, Willard -- Stoudenmire, Dallas -- Strahorn, Robert Edmond -- Strang, James Jesse -- Streeter, Thomas W. -- Stuart, Granville -- Stuart, John -- Sublette brothers -- Suffrage -- Sullivan-Clinton Campaign -- Sully, Alfred -- Summerhayes, Martha Dunham -- Sumner, Edwin Vose -- Sun dance -- Sun Valley, Idaho -- Sundance Kid -- Superior Upland -- Susquehanna (Susquehannock) Indians -- Sutro, Adolph Heinrich -- Sutter, John Augustus -- Sutters Fort -- Swan, Alexander Hamilton -- Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon -- Sycamore Shoals, Treaty of -- Tabor, Horace Austin Warner -- Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam -- Taliaferro, Lawrence -- Tall Bull -- Talmage, James Edward -- Tanner, John -- Taos and Santa Fe art colonies -- Tariff policy -- Taverns and hotels -- Taylor, Bayard -- Taylor, John -- Taylor Museum -- Taylor, Zachary -- Teapot Dome Scandal -- Tecumseh -- Telegraph -- Television -- Teller, Henry Moore -- Ten-gallon hat -- Tennessee, settlement of -- Tenskwatawa (the Shawnee Prophet) -- Territorial Papers of the United States -- Territorial system -- Terry, Alfred Howe -- Texas -- Texas and Pacific Railroad -- Texas, annexation of -- Texas fever -- Texas Rangers -- Texas Revolution -- Thames, battle of the -- Theater -- Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art -- Thompson, Benjamin F. -- Thompson, David -- Thompson, Jacob -- Thoreau, Henry David -- Thorpe, Thomas Bangs -- Thwaites, Reuben Gold -- Tijerina, Reies Lopez -- Tilghman, William Matthew Jr. -- Tillamook Indians -- Timber and Stone Act -- Timber Culture Act -- Tippecanoe, battle of -- Tlah, Hastiin -- Tlingit Indians -- Tobin, John W -- Tocqueville, Alexis de -- Todd, John Blair Smith -- Tolowa Indians -- Tombstone, Arizona -- Tomlinson, George A -- Tonopah, Nevada -- Tonti [Tonty], Henri de -- Tonto Basin War -- Toole, K. 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Turrentine -- Jackson, William Henry -- Jacobs, Wilbur S. -- James, Edwin -- James, Jesse [Woodson] and [Alexander], Frank[lin] -- James, William Roderick -- Japanese Americans -- Japanese immigration -- Jayhawkers -- Jays Treaty -- Jefferson Barracks -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Jeffersonian Republican party -- Jeffords, Thomas J. -- Jennings, William -- Jerome, Arizona -- Jesuit missions -- Jesup, Thomas Sidney -- Jewish immigration -- Jicarilla Indians -- Jogues, Isaac -- Johannsen, Robert -- Johnson, Claudia Alta (Lady Bird) -- Johnson County War -- Johnson, Dorothy Marie -- Johnson, Hiram Warren -- Johnson, Lyndon Baines -- Johnson, Richard Mentor -- Johnson, Robert Ward -- Johnson, William -- Johnston, Albert Sidney -- Jolliet, Louis -- Jones, John Percival -- Jones, Thomas ap Catesby -- Joseph, Antonio -- Joseph, Chief -- Joset, Joseph -- Joslyn Art Museum -- Joy, James Frederick -- Judah, Theodore Dehone -- Kaiser, Henry John -- Kamiakin -- Kane, Paul -- Kansa Indians -- Kansas -- 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