How many have played the old computer game “Oregon Trails,” when computers first came out?

Just think, games like that and going west wouldn’t happened without Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana purchase April 30, 1803. It was purchased from France by the United States. The United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. For roughly 4 cents an acre, the United States double its size, expanding the nation westward.

Lewis and Clark expedition happened May 14, 1804- September 23, 1806. Sacagawea led Lewis and Clark out west as translator and a guide.

Those on the Left wants the people to know that Lewis and Clark were racist by making them out to be the villains by making them look bad. If you really think about it, they couldn’t made the discovery out West without Sacagawea. They needed each other.

If anything, the Whites introduced small pox and whiskey, also know as “fire water” to the Native Americans. You can say that the Native Americans were good for the new Americans from the time America was discovered, up until the Lewis and Clark expedition.

After the Lewis and Clark expedition, the American people would slowly make their ways out West to enlarge their territory of the United States. They first needed someone who knew the right path and how to navigate.

It wasn’t until between 1840’s and 1860’s did hundreds of thousands of Americans traveled west in covered wagons pulled by teams of oxen; even though the old Western movies showed horses instead.

The California gold rush started January 24, 1848. The American people caught the fever for gold and rushed to moved West.

Who haven’t played cowboys and Indians when they were a child?

Who haven’t sang the song, “Home on the Range?” That was the theme song for the cowboys back in the 1800’s.

The West was wild back then but yet it was much different than it is today. It was true cowboy’s justice. They had respect for property; not like they do now. In this new wild west, those on the Left is destroying cities with their protest.

Maybe I was born in the wrong era, because I should have been a cowboy. Life may have been rougher but it still was better than it is today.

Now days we seem to have the new wild west. The true American cowboys would roll over in their grave if they knew how this new wild west is actually destroying things.

You heard the old saying, “Go West, Young Man!” Throughout history, many have took it literally. It’s started with the Gold Rush and expanding the United States. Many went to prosper. I have relatives, who was born in Casselton, North Dakota and lived in Fargo; but they had gotten the fever to go out West for a better opportunity.

Now it seems that the tides had switched. The American people are fed up with this new wild west. Stay tuned for next week as I will talked about how many are leaving California.

Give me a home where the buffalo roam and wide open spaces. A place where you can see the stars at night without pollution and city lights.