The name of the region, originally included the area of development — Printerresolution on the territory of modern States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas.The American West was inhabited by Indians who were driven from their land, giving them in return a barren reservation.White hunters ruthlessly slaughtered the Buffalo.in the nineteenth century, pioneers and the Wild West was considered a romantic and heroic light.The most famous and successful Drover in the West was John Iliff.