The westward expansion carried slavery down into the Southwest, into Mississippi, Alabama, crossing the Mississippi River into Louisiana. Finally, by the 1840's, it was pouring into Texas.

Kevin Costner’s The West isn’t the usual retelling of the United States’ western expansion, because it takes the viewpoint that the US settlers were treading on an already-occupied land.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- Robidoux Row Museum is giving elementary school kids a history lesson on an event that helped shape the United States today.