That picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood.

Ex-Oriole Clint Courtney, now catching for the A's is all for the American League's 1961 expansion to the West Coast.

* 1975 – Joel West, American actor and model

A similar French influence is seen in classroom ASL in francophone West Africa, where ASL was introduced along with formal education for the deaf by the deaf American missionary Andrew Foster.

* 1952 – Billy West, American voice actor

* 1980 – David West, American basketball player

Since then, American English has been influenced by the languages of West Africa, the Native American population, Spanish, and immigration.

Saltwater fish eaten by the American Indians were cod, lemon sole, flounder, herring, halibut, sturgeon, smelt, drum on the East Coast, and olachen and salmon on the West Coast.

Through hardships and eventual establishment of trade with Britain, the West Indies and other regions, the colonists were able to establish themselves in the American colonies with a cuisine similar to their previous British cuisine.

Cooking in the American West gets its influence from Native American and Mexican cultures, and other European settlers into the part of the country.

Together with earlier arrivals to the United States ( including the indigenous American Indians, Hispanic and Latino Americans, particularly in the West, Southwest, and Texas ; African Americans who came to the United States in the Atlantic slave trade ; and early colonial migrants from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ), these new waves of immigrants had a pro profound impact on national or regional cuisine.

Some such stories are exaggerations of actual events ; others are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the American Old West, or the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

* Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona.

* 1882 – American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.

* 1977 – Matthew West, American singer-songwriter and musician

* 1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley was hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.

Historically, the use of two guns at once, one in each hand, is most associated with the American Old West, where revolvers holding only six rounds of ammunition were the highest capacity handguns available and reloading was a slow process.

In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in West Germany and eventually included all of the American, British, and French zones, excluding those three countries ' zones in Berlin, while the Marxist-Leninist German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Germany.

Airline service to West Berlin was granted only to American, British, and French airlines.

The official name of the Territory is still simply the " Virgin Islands ", but the prefix " British " is often used to distinguish it from the neighbouring American territory which changed its name from the " Danish West Indies " to " Virgin Islands of the United States " in 1917.

The film satirizes the racism obscured by myth-making Hollywood accounts of the American West, with the hero being a black sheriff in an all-white town.

The West American Digest System is a system of identifying points of law from reported cases and organizing them by topic and key number.

For nationwide research, about once a month, West publishes a General Digest volume, which incorporates classified digest notes from all reporters of the West National Reporter System.

Since all West headnote annotations are merged on Westlaw into a single database from which each Custom Digest is generated, there is no need to consult each separate series of the hard copy Decennial Digest.

* West product search for Key Number Digest

* West American Digest System

West's ALR Digest now follows the classification system of the West American Digest System, and includes headnotes for the reported cases, as well as references to the annotations.

And for the convenience of legal researchers, the second series of volumes also provided cross-references to the key numbers of the West Publishing Company's Digest System and to the A. L. R.

This semantic, intellectual network-based approach to organizing legal knowledge and locating legal resources is a significant departure from traditional hierarchical, case law-specific legal taxonomies, such as the taxonomy utilized by the West American Digest System.

West also publishes the West American Digest System to help lawyers find cases in its reporters.

During the 1970s, he was in a romantic relationship with Clive Clerk, one of the original cast members of A Chorus Line and an interior designer who decorated Tryon's apartment on Central Park West in New York City, which was featured in Architectural Digest.

A typical law library will include in its collection a large number of works not seen in other libraries, including a full set of United States Reports, one or both of the unofficial U. S. Supreme Court reporters, the West National Reporter System, the West American Digest System, official reporters from various states, the Federal Register, volumes of American Jurisprudence, bound volumes containing issues of prominent law reviews from around the country, federal and state statutes and regulations ( such as the United States Code and Code of Federal Regulations ), and a variety of treatises, encyclopedias, looseleaf services, and practice guides.

Golf Digest ranked the West Course 8th and the East Course 65th in its 2009-10 listing of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses.

NADGE / AEGIS were complemented, in West Germany by the German Air Defence Ground Environment ( GEADGE ), an updated radar network adding southern West Germany to the European system, and Coastal Radar Integration System ( CRIS ), adding data links from Danish coastal radars.

In the 1980s, the UK's air traffic control radar processing was conducted on a PDP 11 / 34 system known as PRDS-Processed Radar Display System at RAF West Drayton.

The Osceola Library System operates the West Osceola Branch Library in Celebration.

Major employers in the area include Alegent Health System, Omaha Public Schools, First Data Corporation, Methodist Health System, Mutual of Omaha, ConAgra Foods, Nebraska Medical Center, Offutt Air Force Base, and the West Corporation.

* VME / B ( originally System B ), targeted at large processors such as the 2970 / 2980 and developed in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire and West Gorton, Manchester

Higher education is provided by West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah, part of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.

The Troup County School System serves Hogansville, LaGrange, and West Point.

East Chicago Public Library System operates a main library at 2401 East Columbus Drive and the Robert A. Pastrick Branch Library at 1008 West Chicago Avenue at Baring Avenue.

Public Land Survey System ( PLSS ) of the United States: Township 108 North, Range 28 West, Fifth Meridian, 23, 193 Acres.

Public Land Survey System ( PLSS ) of the United States: Township 106 North, Range 27 West, Fifth Meridian, 22, 998 Acres.

Public Land Survey System ( PLSS ) of the United States: Township 107 North, Range 27 West, Fifth Meridian, 22, 819 Acres.

Public Land Survey System ( PLSS ) of the United States: Township 108 North, Range 27 West, Fifth Meridian, 23, 092 Acres.

Public Land Survey System ( PLSS ) of the United States: Township 105 North, Range 27 West, Fifth Meridian, 23, 044 Acres.

Township 115 North, Range 24 West, Fifth Principal Meridian of the Public Land Survey System

Township 116 North, Range 24 West, Fifth Principal Meridian of the Public Land Survey System

Public Land Survey System ( PLSS ) of the United States: Township 108 North, Range 27 West, Fifth Meridian, 22, 895 Acres.

Under the United States Public Land Survey System it is a survey township identified as Township 149 North, Range 42 West, Fifth Principal Meridian.

The Sweeny Library, part of the Brazoria County Library System, is located at 205 West Ashley-Wilson Road.

The West Columbia Library is a part of the Brazoria County Library System.

Brownwood is also the home of a West Texas campus of the Texas State Technical College System.

Montgomery County Memorial Library System operates the R. F. Meador Branch at 709 West Montgomery Street.

Breckenridge is also the home of a West Texas campus of the Texas State Technical College System.