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Bookmark or Share- 22 iconic Seattle bars, restaurants that are no longer aroundFor more than three decades, the Alki Tavern was West Seattle’s most famous dive bar with a view.
- Timeline of the American Old West - WikipediaThis timeline of the American Old West is a chronologically ordered list of events significant to the development of the American West as a region of the continental United States. The term "American Old West" refers to a vast geographical area and lengthy time period of imprecise boundaries, and historians' definitions vary.
- American frontier - WikipediaThe American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
- Seattle Neighborhoods: West Seattle -- Thumbnail HistoryWest Seattle -- the oldest and the biggest of Seattle’s neighborhoods -- is both a peninsula and a state of mind. The first Euro-American settlers arrived here (on Alki Point) in 1851, but left within a few months, moving to a more agreeable location on the other side of Elliott Bay (the site of present-day downtown Seattle).
- Seattle Neighborhoods: West Seattle Junction -- Thumbnail HistoryThe oldest of Seattle’s neighborhoods (site of the first Euro-American settlement, in 1851), West Seattle’s growth was limited for decades by its relative isolation. In the early 1900s, it was connected to downtown Seattle by only a ferry, a railway trestle, and a winding wagon road.
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