What is the Wild West? Surely these words immediately bring to mind dashing cowboys, bloodthirsty Indians, and a gang of desperate thugs. Their whole life is endless skirmishes with each other, in between which they drink in lousy salons. Few sheriffs can ensure justice in the vast wastelands of the Wild West, so Mr. Colt serves as the only protection.
At least, this image for us, ordinary people, is replicated by mass culture in the form of Hollywood westerns. But how far is all this from reality? What was the Wild West really like? Let's try to figure it out.
The history of the Wild West began on April 30, 1803, when the government of the Young United States decided to purchase French Louisiana, a vast territory in the American West. The Americans bought more than two million square kilometers of land for the ridiculously small amount of $15 million. Most of the purchased territory was a completely wild area, which belonged to France only by right of the discoverer. Immediately after the purchase of the third, United States President Thomas Jefferson decided to organize an expedition to the West, the task of which was to find a river route across America that would connect two oceans - the Pacific and the Atlantic.


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