What states included the wild west?

Question

What states included the wild west?

Answer 1

any states that werent states before 1860.

Answer 2

Generally speaking, the "Wild West" is used to refer to the area of the contenential U.S. located west of the Mississippi River.  I'm pretty sure that this area had NO states when it was dubbed the 'Wild West'....the land was divided into territories.

Answer 3

The "Wild West" is a state of mind invented by TV producers and writers. It was no where near as wild as the TV shows showed.  

In general it was the areas of the USA after 1865 that were not yet states.  

California and Nevada were states so are exceptions.  California is not usually included,  Nevada is.  In fact, Verdi, Nevada was the site of the first train robbery.

However, it also on occasion included places as far east as Minnesota.  (The Great Northfield Raid.)  

People tend to be pretty nice and polite when everyone packs a gun.  In the case of the Northfield raid,  when the James gang came out of the bank,  they were hit with gun fire from every direction.   Also any robbery that took place had a posse formed pretty fast.    Since the locals tended to know the roads and water holes pretty well,  they had the advantage.  Lastly,  with the telegraph and later telephone,  they could call surrounding towns to be on the lookout for the robbers.  The chances of getting away were not very good.

Answer 4

Generally we think of it as the thirteen states that entered the Union between the American Civil War and World War I.

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Ord State date

0 District of Columbia

1 Delaware - Dec. 7, 1787

2 Pennsylvania - Dec. 12, 1787

3 New Jersey - Dec. 18, 1787

4 Georgia - Jan. 2, 1788

5 Connecticut - Jan. 9, 1788

6 Massachusetts - Feb. 6, 1788

7 Maryland - Apr. 28, 1788

8 South Carolina - May 23, 1788

9 New Hampshire - June 21, 1788

10 Virginia - June 25, 1788

11 New York - July 26, 1788

12 North Carolina - Nov. 21, 1789

13 Rhode Island - May 29, 1790

14 Vermont - Mar. 4, 1791

15 Kentucky - June 1, 1792

16 Tennessee - June 1, 1796

17 Ohio - Mar. 1, 1803

18 Louisiana - Apr. 30, 1812

19 Indiana - Dec. 11, 1816

20 Mississippi - Dec. 10, 1817

21 Illinois - Dec. 3, 1818

22 Alabama - Dec. 14, 1819

23 Maine - Mar. 15, 1820

24 Missouri - Aug. 10, 1821

25 Arkansas - June 15, 1836

26 Michigan - Jan. 26, 1837

27 Florida - Mar. 3, 1845

28 Texas - Dec. 29, 1845

29 Iowa - Dec. 28, 1846

30 Wisconsin - May 29, 1848

31 California - Sept. 9, 1850

32 Minnesota - May 11, 1858

33 Oregon - Feb. 14, 1859

34 Kansas - Jan. 29, 1861

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35  West Virginia - June 20, 1863 (broke from VA)

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36 Nevada - Oct. 31, 1864

37 Nebraska - Mar. 1, 1867

38 Colorado - Aug. 1, 1876

39 North Dakota - Nov. 2, 1889

40 South Dakota - Nov. 2, 1889

41 Montana - Nov. 8, 1889

42 Washington - Nov. 11, 1889

43 Idaho - July 3, 1890

44 Wyoming - July 10, 1890

45 Utah - Jan. 4, 1896

46 Oklahoma - Nov. 16, 1907

47 New Mexico - Jan. 6, 1912

48 Arizona - Feb. 14, 1912

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49 Alaska - Jan. 3, 1959

50 Hawaii - Aug. 21, 1959

Answer 5

"California and Nevada were states so are exceptions. California is not usually included, Nevada is. In fact, Verdi, Nevada was the site of the first train robbery."

The TV Show Bonanza was set on the California/Nevada state line.  Another TV Show of that era, The Big Valley was set in the San Joaquin Valley in California.  The legend of Zoro was set in Spanish Colonial Los Angeles.

Rustlers canyon, a place imortalized in a novel by Loiuis LaAmor, is on the Riverside/San Diego county line, near the town of Temecula.

The Western Movies Paint your Wagon, and McCabe and Mrs Miller, were set in the California gold fields,

Answer 6

The area  referred to as the "Wild West" changed with time, as "civilization" followed the settlers.  In the 1770's Kentucky was the Wild West.  There are no boundaries as such, and there was a certain amount of leap-frogging.  Some parts of Texas are still not civilized ;<)