The Wild Wild West Narrative

The myth of the great american desert and the challenge that it took to settle these lands was invented by new englanders. They did not want to have to establish new states and political entities there, because those entities would dilute the pow r in washington. The western frontier is such a key part of the wild wild west narrative that gerib is talking about just the story of the expansion westward. And we don't focus on all the other things that were also going on during this time like land dispossession or treaties being violated.