So if there was no westward expansion, then we wouldn't have, say, Texas fiddling and Texas-style Western Swing and other styles of Americana.
Swaths of Texas and the western U.S. have faced drought conditions for much of the year, including parts of Colorado where wildfires continue to burn.
The plaintiffs survived a motion to dismiss last December in a Western District of Texas federal court, and each party has now filed motions for summary judgment.
On April 30, 2003, the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas sentenced Cornett to a term of imprisonment of 37 months after he pleaded guilty to five counts of bank fraud.
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"At this time authorities will not speculate whether the possession of the unregistered destructive device has any connection to the West fertilizer plant explosion, " the U.S. attorney's office for the Western District of Texas said in a release.
In Fort Worth, a city serious about its western heritage where Texas Longhorn cattle are still herded through town twice a day for tourists to see, the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame celebrates the lives of past and present influential cowboys.
Areas in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle also had up to 8 inches of snow by Thursday morning.
Dirt-track racing has its roots in the very beginnings of the sport, and there are still hundreds of tracks scattered around the U.S., with particular concentrations in Texas, California, Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
Dirt-track racing has its roots in the very beginnings of the sport and there are still hundreds of tracks scattered around the country with particular concentrations in Texas, California, Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
In fact, it corresponds to a decades-old phenomenon related to US internal dynamics, especially to changes in demographics (the relative rise in population of southern and western states such as Texas, California, Oregon which have had traditionally less links with Europe).
Based in Louisville, Kentucky, Texas Roadhouse specializes in steaks and promotes a western theme at its chains.
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Still, officials reopened Interstate 40 in the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico, and portions of Interstate 70 in western Kansas that had been closed.
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This acquisition is part of a broader shale gas strategy for Shell, which also owns acreage in western Canada (Horn River), the Haynesville Shale, South Texas, and the Pinedale.
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Indeed, a number of western and southwestern states (such as Washington, Nevada, Arizona, and Texas) are actively pursuing employers of all shapes and sizes and workers of all kinds through more favorable tax structures.
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Eisenhower was basically a Dewey Republican but being a Texas-born, Kansas-bred Westerner with a religious orientation and someone who could speak to Western values (and was pretty obviously comfortable in boots), he could appeal to the Taft wing.
If ExxonMobil is looking at a shortage of sweet-light in its mid-western refineries, they can go to the futures market and buy a few weeks supply of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for delivery in 60 days.
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The oil, from producers in western Canada, is gooey, acidic and high in sulfur--harder to refine than benchmark West Texas Intermediate (light, sweet) crude.
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