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Mail was being transported to San Francisco by ship from New York, with a land crossing across the Isthmus of Panama, normally a month's trip.

After the eighteenth century and the push beyond the Appalachian Mountains, the term is generally applied to anywhere west of the Mississippi River in earlier periods and westward from the frontier strip toward the later part of the 18th century.

Astor's move into the Northwest was a major American attempt to compete with the established French and English traders.Howard R.Lamar (1977), p.423As the frontier moved westward, trapper and hunters moved ahead of settlers, searching out new supplies of beaver and other skins for shipment to Europe.

The earliest cowboys in Texas learned their trade, adapted their clothing, and took their jargon from the Mexican vaqueros or "buckaroos", the heirs of Spanish cattlemen from Andalusia in Spain.

San Francisco was the main port of arrival, with Asians, South Americans, Australians, and Europeans making long ocean journeys, and the town grew from 800 to 20,000 people in eighteen months, with only a fractional number of women and children.

The wealth from silver, more than from gold, fueled the maturation of San Francisco in the 1860s and helped the rise of some of its wealthiest families.Robert M.Utley (2003), p.195Following the California and Nevada discoveries, miners left those areas and hunted for gold along the Rockies and in the southwest.

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