History of the American West

Why did Los Angeles adopt Cars instead of Mass Transit?

By Sandvick on January 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

By 1920, the streets of Los Angeles’s central core were some of the most congested in the United States. Pedestrians, streetcars, trains, and automobiles all competed for space on Los Angeles’s city streets, and its leaders had struggled with numerous… Read More ›

Was Cattle Kate lynched for challenging Wyoming’s patriarchy and crony captialism?

By Sandvick on March 13, 2018 • ( 0 )

From the Smithsonian.com by Eliza McGraw: On July 20, 1889, in a gulch by the Wyoming’s Sweetwater River, six cattlemen lynched a man and a woman accused of cattle rustling. As the purported bodies twisted from the same tree limb:… Read More ›