Massey's chairman had spent three million dollars to help elect him to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

From Mel Fisher's Museum, we walk the short distance to Mallory Square, the center of Key West's historic area.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

These are words that visitors use to describe Dolly Sods, a large wild area in the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Soon after the Civil War ended in eighteen sixty-five, thousands of Americans began to move west to settle the land.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

The Santa Fe Trail began in the state of Missouri, the nineteenth century gateway to the wild and largely unexplored West.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

A force known as the Army of the West used the Santa Fe Trail to protect American traders.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Where the young may exult and the aged may rest, Away,far away, to the land of the west."

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Land protests last year forced the company to close its factory in the Indian state of West Bengal.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

They proposed that the line of the Missouri Compromise be pushed west,all the way to the Pacific Coast.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

We explain its place in the history of the first stagecoaches that carried mail to the American West.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

And they came by the hundreds of thousands to take jobs in steel factories in Pennsylvania and the coal mines of West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

He decided to march most of his men down the west side of the river to a steamboat landing thirty kilometers below Vicksburg.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

When one thinks of the "Wild West" of America, he does not think of the miners who opened the way to the West.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

It was named in honor of Saint Louis, which was historically called "The Gateway to the West."

VOA: special.2009.03.04

The story of her life became linked to romantic ideas about gold mining in the American West and the dream of getting rich quick.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

It's easy to imagine those long-ago days of cowboys and Indians, and the spirit of adventure that led travelers to ride the stagecoach west.

VOA: special.2010.04.26