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 EMEA, Asian and Australasian TNT channels eventually became Turner Classic Movies, while the Latin American version retained the TNT branding.

With the eventual successes of the modern day Civil Rights Movement, such blatantly racist branding practices ended in the U. S., and blackface became an American taboo.

There is some confusion of nomenclature in the United States between true baritones and euphoniums, in part due to the old practice of American euphonium manufacturers calling their professional models by their proper names, and branding entry-level student models as baritones.

Examples of designer T-shirt branding include Calvin Klein, FUBU, Ralph Lauren, American Apparel and The Gap.

The branding issue was further complicated when the company's Eagle all-wheel drive passenger cars were marketed as the " American Eagle " in the 1980s.

In 2006, AIROS, an acronym for " American Indian Radio on Satellite ", had changed their name to the AIROS Native Radio Network for branding purposes, as some AIROS programs can be heard on satellite radio services, such as Sirius and XM.

He is an award-winning American designer concentrating on branding and packaging design.

Unlike most international cable channels that have licensed an American cable channel's branding and programming, E!

In the American West, a branding iron consisted of an iron rod with a simple symbol or mark which cowboys heated in a fire.

In 1980, Häagen-Dazs unsuccessfully sued Frusen Glädjé, an American ice cream maker, whose name without the acute accent is Swedish for " frozen delight ", for using similar foreign branding strategies.

Discovery Kids was launched on April 2, 2012 with current Latin American branding.

In July 2010, Pepsi began to move its North American branding for Pepsi Max to match its global branding.

ABC1 was a United Kingdom based television channel from Disney using the branding of the Disney-owned American network, ABC, whose flagship is WABC-TV, channel 7, New York.

In the American West, branding evolved into a complex marking system still in use today.

* KKHJ-FM, a radio station ( 93. 1 FM ) licensed to Pago Pago, American Samoa, which uses the branding 93 KHJ

* KKHJ-LP, a low-power television station ( channel 30 ) licensed to Pago Pago, American Samoa, which uses the branding KHJ-TV

( which shut down a few days prior ), adopted a new schedule includes a mix of movies and older programming ( both Canadian and American in origin ); syndicated programming ; and a greater emphasis on local news, including a new 10 pm newscast that launched on September 1, 2009. and reverted to branding itself as simply CHEK.

Book Sense was a marketing and branding program of the American Booksellers Association, in which independent bookstores across North America participated in order to better compete with the large book chains.

The channel shared its branding and the majority of its programming with its American counterpart, MSNBC.

American Ind students branding cattle.

During this time at Wallpaper, Brule focused his attention on a branding and advertising agency he'd started, called Winkreative, which he still runs and which has counted among its clients companies like American Express, Porter Airlines, British Airways, BlackBerry and Sky News.

When American Airlines bought TWA, the regional airlines functioning under the Trans World Express " banner " became affiliated with American Airlines under the name and new banner carrier branding AmericanConnection.