Expansion Collection

Portrait Of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull
Portrait shows the chief of the Sioux tribe Sitting Bull (1831 - 1890), known as Tatanka Iyotake to his people, as he sits in Bismarck, North Dakota, 1881

American Settlers Heading West
Illustration of early settlers heading to the American West in covered wagons, circa 1800s. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Getty Images)

Gathering bodies at Little Big Horn site
Captain Sandersons camp at the ford while gathering and burying bones following the death of General Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn, 1876. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Buildings of the world Exhibitions, 19th century
Exhibition buildings of world exhibitions in the 19th century: 1-3) Buildings for the World Exhibition 1893 in Chicago, USA: 1) Machine exhibition building, 2) Building for horticulture

American Westward Expansion
A goddess helps pioneers establish civilization during the United States Westward Expansion, in a 19th Century illustration entitled American Progress. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Exhibition buildings to world exhibitions in the 19th century
Exhibition buildings and floor plans of world exhibitions in the 19th century: 1) Paris 1855, Industry building; 2) Paris 1855, detail from the floor plan; 3) Paris 1867, floor plan; 4) Vienna 1873

Housing development
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Housing development, Levittown, Pennsylvania. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Emigrant Camp
A wagon train encampment during the westward expansion of the United States, circa 1860. Engraving by Samuel Sartain after W.H. Wilcox (Photo by Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Old West Homestead Portrait
A family of prosperous and sturdy pioneers poses for a group portrait outside their habitat, Western US, late 19th Century. (Phtoo by Frederic Lewis/Getty Images)

Oklaham Avenue
Oklahoma Avenue looking west, Guthrie, Oklahoma, photographed by Mitchell and DeGroff, showing crowds and tents. Guthrie, Oklahoma, USA, 27 April 1889. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

East Temple Street In Salt Lake City
View of traffic along East Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1880s. A number of covered wagons, drawn by cattle are on the unpaved road

Remember the Alamo
The final assault on the Alamo. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Gold Rush Prospectors
A group of prospectors poses with their equipment and a heavily laden horse as they prepare to go somewhere, Northwestern United States, 1867. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Barroom Dispute In The Old Days
A man in a fringed leather jacket and cowboy hat holds a revolver at his waist as he argues with a seated fellow gambler in a staged photograph depicting a scene of drunken conflict during

Old West Homestead Portrait
A family stands outside their ramshackle cabin, which they must occupy in order to certify their homestead claim, outside of Guthrie, Oklahoma, 1889. (Photo by Harmon T. Swearingen/Getty Images)

Old West Homestead Portrait
Stereopticon image of a family outside their habitat on their ranch, Western US, late 19th Century. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Old West Homestead Portrait
A pioneer family poses for a portrait outside their mud-brick habitat on the Great Plains in the Dakota Territory, late 20th Century. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

American Pioneers By Lake
Illustration of a log cabin built in the woods beside a lake, with two pioneers standing by the shore, circa 1800s. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Pioneers Crossing The Plains
An illustration depicting emigrants in horse-drawn wagons crossing the American Plains. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Settlement Camp At Night
Illustration of an American settlers at a prairie camp at night, late 19th century. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

American Settlers Crossing The Plains
Illustration of American settlers at a camp while crossing the plains during the Westward Expansion, circa 1850. (Photo by Lawrence Thornton/Getty Images)

American Settlers Camp
Illustration of American settlers cooking at camp site. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Overland Coach Office Of Denver
Illustration of people and carriages in the street outside the Overland Coach Office, Denver, Colorado, 1866. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Railroad Construction In Old West
Illustration of a crew of men working to construct railroad tracks in the Old West, 1870s. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)

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