>>3586842Western America has a rich and old history as well as Eastern America. The Russians settled what is now Alaska during the early 1700s, believe it or not they even made as far south as California, and claimed northern Cali to at first. The British and Americans took over the Oregon-Washington/Vancouver-British Columbia region and expelled Russian influence there (leaving the Russian only Alaska), and the Spanish landed in southern California in 1542 under Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo. California was exchanged from Spain to Mexico to its own Republic and finally to the USA.
