... "eastern timberlands" from the Great Plains. Crossing west into the Great Plains marked the beginning of the American West. "In other words the West begins with the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas." Another view presented by New American Western Historians such as Patrician Nelson Limerick examines the process that shaped the West. She included "invasion, colonization, conquest, exploitation, ... concept that it was a land that had to be tamed. Hollywood likes to create an exaggerated, grandiose image of the West as a place where good and evil clashed, without room for any...

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