Mexican-American playwright Karen Zacarías estimates that half of Old West cowboys after the Civil War were Black or Hispanic ...

As white explorers and settlers entered Western territory, they disrupted a centuries-old culture ... and Native American tribes had lost it, leaving the world of the West forever changed.

Most westerns are set in the ‘Old ... native to the US; the first tumbleweed only arrived in South Dakota around 1873, most likely in a shipment of flaxseed from Russia, and reached the far west ...

White Americans won the West because everything was on their side. The Native Americans fought bravely, but the odds were completely against them.

While the answer might seem obvious — Native Americans are having more babies than everyone else — their population spike "probably was not the result of good old-fashioned procreation ...