23:29straight chillin with mexico
23:29it was mostly natives just living their lives
23:29the west was just chilliin
23:30there wasnt an american west yet
23:35West was like Ohio then
23:36West coast was owned by Russia at that point
23:36during that period it was occupied by native tribes and nobody else
23:36Oh they were busy making railroads and mines. With Chinese people!
23:37You are the Canadian :_dizMike:
23:37It belonged to Mexico and France at the time
23:38nothing but buffalo and beavers out there
23:39canada has been to war
23:41The west didn't really exist. It was just trading posts. Fur trade. Forts.
23:43Being owned by Mexico and Franch
23:44they existed but not proper US yet
23:44Are beavers tasty? :_dizDizzy:
23:46The beavers hat it coming
23:47not being America yet? I think?
23:48Basically the same with us
23:49I don't think we ever spilled into Canada
23:49didn't the Canadians burn down the whitehouse
23:50The West wasn't American, it was Spanish
23:50Not existing, being very loosely considered owned by the spanish
23:51a lot of the west was unpopulated until the oregon trails were established
23:51the same thing and gold
23:52Wasn't part of the US
23:55are we talking californian west?
23:58travelling to Texas to farm cotton?
24:01Alaska was owned by Russia