The West, Definition, States, Map, & History

The West, region, western U.S., mostly west of the Great Plains and including Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Virtually every part of the U.S. except the Eastern Seaboard has been ‘the West’ at some point in American history.

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