In 1890 the Bureau of Census had declared the American frontier was closed. What had started with the Lewis and Clark expeditions, and the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, had quickly come to an end — it was the fastest territorial expansion in all of civilization! The wagon trains, gold rush, cattle drives, buffalo hunts, boom towns and the brutal conflicts with the western Indians will always remain an amazing chapter not just in American history, but in the history of the world.