Wikipedia:WikiProject American Old West

Welcome to WikiProject American Old West, a place on Wikipedia where for the most part you can put up your boots and edit without a lot of bickering and backbiting. There's lots of articles waiting to be started! This project covers any and all articles related to the historical American Old West from about 1835 to 1900. If you would like to help out with the project, please add your name to the list of participants below. If you have comments or suggestions, consider adding it to talk page.

Summary
The goal of this wikiproject is to help expand and improve the coverage the history of the American Old West on Wikipedia. These include the following:


 * Ghost towns
 * Cowboys and cowgirls
 * Western lawmen
 * Old West outlaws
 * Mountain Men
 * Texas Ranger Hall of Fame
 * Cochise County in the Old West
 * Native Americans

... and many other requested articles.

The cutoff date for articles included within this WikiProject's scope is from about 1835 to 1900. If your article is about a subject that was notable after 1900, please consider adding it to Wikiproject United States.

Guidelines

 * Articles within the scope of WikiProject American Old West should include information about the subject's relation to the American Old West.

Participants
Please add your name and a short description of your interest below to the end of the list.

Featured content
N/A

Candidates

 * Grub Gulch (Ghost Town)

Newly created articles
Please feel free to list your new American Old West-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.


 * Madera Sugar Pine Company

Articles needing attention
See Category: American Old West articles needing attention here.

Proposed new articles
See: Requested articles

Peer review requested
N/A

Article assessment and re-assessment
See: Assessment

Good articles



 * Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Promoted: April 18, 2011
 * Abraham Lincoln Promoted: December 16, 2010
 * Pony Express Promoted: July 24, 2010
 * Alamogordo, New Mexico Promoted: November 21, 2009
 * Louis H. Carpenter Promoted: August 4, 2009
 * Thomas R. Cornelius Promoted: March 29, 2009
 * Gadsden Purchase Promoted: October 10, 2008
 * Emigrant Trail in Wyoming Promoted: June 21, 2008
 * Joel Palmer Promoted: March 29, 2008
 * Sitting Bull Promoted: January 14, 2008
 * Great Raid of 1840 Promoted: July 21, 2007
 * Provisional Government of Oregon Promoted: July 4, 2007
 * American Civil War Promoted: November 4, 2006
 * Mormon Trail Promoted: June 11, 2006
 * Silver Reef, Utah Promoted: December 29, 2010
 * Irataba Promoted: February 15, 2015
 * Rose-Baley Party Promoted: February 16, 2015
 * Wyatt Earp Promoted: November 20, 2015
 * Billy the Kid Promoted: January 9, 2016
 * Stephen Dee Richards Promoted: April 23, 2020

Featured articles



 * Battle of the Alamo Promoted: October 3, 2009
 * Fredonian Rebellion Promoted: September 6, 2009
 * James Bowie Promoted: January 21, 2008
 * California Gold Rush Promoted: December 10, 2007
 * Frederick Russell Burnham Promoted: September 29, 2007
 * Rock Springs massacre Promoted: July 30, 2007
 * Emperor Norton Promoted: July 7, 2007
 * Tulsa, Oklahoma Promoted: May 12, 2007
 * San Francisco Promoted: September 10, 2006
 * History of the Grand Canyon area Promoted: May 18, 2005
 * Yosemite National Park Promoted: March 18, 2005

Talkpage templates
WikiProject United States

Infoboxes

 * Infobox police officer, a good infobox for "lawmen" such as sheriffs and marshals
 * Infobox criminal, a good infobox for "outlaws"
 * Infobox criminal organization, a good infobox for "outlaw gangs"

Footers

 * OldWest-stub
 * OldWest-bio-stub
 * US-ghost-town-stub
 * California-ghost-town-stub
 * Wild West
 * Cochise County Conflict

Userpage templates
User WikiProject AOW

Barnstar template
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Sisterlinks
List of U.S. State-level WikiProjects and their sub-projects

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography
 * WikiProject Ghost towns
 * WikiProject Mining
 * WikiProject Law Enforcement
 * WikiProject Military history (see also: U.S. military history and U.S. Civil War task force)