This wild and lawless period in the West has been shown in hundreds of movies, television programs and books.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

In that year, Congress debated a proposal to create two territories from one large area in the west.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

The state governor freed her, but only after the United States Senate ordered an investigation into conditions in the West Virginia coal fields.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

These were shoes worn on the Aran Islands, in the west of Ireland, until the nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

There were no slaves in the West. The land and the weather were not right for the kind of farming that used slaves.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

In June,the Speed Sisters became the first all-female racing team to compete in the Speed Test, a popular race in the West Bank.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

More and more people decided to leave the crowded East for a new life in the West.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

They gave command of it to General John Pope, a successful fighter in the West.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

But sales in the West increased by nineteen percent in March from a year before.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

He said they would search for it in the West, for a wide beautiful valley.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

But it was not the only army. Others were battling Confederate forces in the West.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

Many congressmen supported silver money -- especially those congressmen from silver-producing states in the west.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

In the west,William Sherman had three armies with more than one hundred thousand men.

VOA: special.2009.11.26