"This exhibit explores both the reality and the myth of the American West, and both are important."
"In the heart of the American West, the Earth opens to reveal a grand spectacle, a chasm of staggering scale and beauty, the Grand Canyon."
"The American West is a place that has shaped the character of the nation."
"The blood that stained America's Old West still pulses through its decaying towns."
"A region based on the western US could truly shine."
"Chancey Williams said it best, the world needs more Cowboys."
"Writing across the continent wasn't just people in wagons moving in taking empty land."
"Opportunists like Buffalo bill created an industry, commercializing the cowboy myth."
"The Comstock Lode was the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States."
"THEY ARE PART OF THE RICH AND COLORFUL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WEST AND A CHERISHED PART OF OUR PUBLIC LANDS LEGACY... A LEGACY THAT BELONGS TO ALL AMERICANS."
"The American West: a time of myth, legends, and history."
"A place full of heroes, bandits, tycoons, cutthroats, outlaws, cowboys, and everything in between."
"The Lewis and Clark expedition sort of locked the American West in the American imagination."
"Marie Dorion is one of the women in our Western history that very few people have heard about, but who really truly helped shape the face of the American West."
"Each role he took on was not just a performance, it was an exploration of the human condition set against the rugged backdrop of the American West."
"Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon symbolize the rest of the American West, iconic and unforgettable."
"Daniel Boone and the opening of the American West."
"His adventures, whether real or not, pretty much formed the basis of the stereotypical hero of the American West, symbolizing the soul of manifest destiny and the American spirit, for better or for worse."
"The Oregon Trail was one of the primary routes for American settlers heading from the eastern states out to the wild West."
"The wild west is a famous period in American history for many reasons."
"Wild horses have long been a symbol of the Great American West."
"She had lived a hard life, but a free life on the ranges of the open Prairie that most Americans even most Texans would only ever read about."
"He was just another one of the uncountable young men who drifted through the American West after the Civil War."
"Western American art is crucial for helping us better understand American culture."
"Arguably the most famous 30 seconds in the history of the American west."
"I think one example of something that is a product of a foreign country's idea of American culture that America kind of reappropriated for itself is the spaghetti western film genre."
"It is the lifeblood of the Western United States."
"The lifestyle etched on Cameron's glass negatives is stark, but the photographs also show the confident spirit of a cowboy or the tender touch of a father's hand."
"The three things that expanded the West are Winchesters, barbed wire, and windmills."
"The exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape appeared in 1975 and crystallized a new view of the American West."
"Virginia City was a modern American city sitting in the mountains of the Old West that had good times and bad times as any boom town of that era."
"Silver City was a classic boom town of the American West, and its name was literal: a wealthy silver deposit had been found in the area."
"To me, it is the true American knife that won the West."
"...the Cowboys represented if you will a very much of a multicultural Workforce far more Multicultural than other aspects of the western economy."
"The West is far more than just a place; it's an idea that always represented promise and a new beginning."
"I'm excited about this Rodeo because the rodeo is like a big classic, mythical, legendary thing about the United States."
"Cowboys, rodeos, bucking bulls, this is exactly what I had wanted to see in the US."
"I'm sure as hell this isn't my last Rodeo."
"The American West, a wide untamed land that produced men to match your mountains."
"This was the gun that won the West."
"The American High West, an absolute playground for anything in the great outdoors."
"The discovery and settlement of the American West is the stuff of myth and legend, and I just love it."
"Beef Bonanza or How to Get Rich on the Plains."
"The West became increasingly connected to the East."
"The West was often seen as a place of opportunity for all."
"Charlie Russell is a way to learn about the American West. The romance of the American West and the documentary history of the American West."
"It is the story of settling the American West."
"The American West is rugged country with mountain peaks providing the backdrop for a beautiful but unforgiving landscape."