Taming the Wild West

Taming the Wild West is a collection of historical events that happened during the settlement of the west. Things were happening fast and furious at that time, with the United States expanding into the territory too fast to tame.

During the Civil War, in New Mexico volunteers helped stop the Confederacy in the 1860's from expanding in the west with their defeat at Rowe Mesa in northern New Mexico.

In the 1870's a lady named Catherine McCarty and her two sons came to New Mexico. The sons' name...