The Wild West [antikvár]

60 WEST, G; T^Vlll} MAN!' lo West, young man!' said an American newspaper I in 1850. And thousands of Americans went. But people started moving to the American West nearly fifty years earlier. In 1803, American president Thomas Jefferson, bought thousands of kilometres of land from the French for fifteen million dollars. The land was west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains. (In today's United States you can find Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana there.) The next year, Jefferson asked two men to go through this land to the Pacific. 'When you find flowers and trees by the road, look carefully at them and write about them,' Jefferson said. And talk to the people, too.' These two men were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. In May 1804, Lewis and Clark went west with forty-six men. It was November 1805 when they arrived at the Pacific. These were the early years of the 'Wild West'. A time when the names Kit Carson, Sitting Bull, Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, Butch Cassidy, Annie Oakley, and many more, became famous across America. newspaper people read about things that happen every day in this president the most important person in a country buy (pasf bought) to give money for something Missouri /mi'zuori/ Arkansas /'a:(r) ksnsa:/ Louisiana /lu:,i;zi'Lens/ wild interesting and exciting Wyatt Earp /'waist 3:(r)p/ become {past became) to begin to be