Southwestern United States

Places, institutions, and developments associated with the U.S. Southwest.

Articles with this tag: 3 Updated: May 13, 2026

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Ancestral Puebloans: People, Architecture, and Cultural Legacy Ancestral Puebloans Ancient Native communities of the Four Corners region known for stone pueblos, cliff dwellings, pottery, irrigation systems and ceremonial traditions that influenced today’s Pueblo…

Apache peoples: languages, culture, and history of the Southwest

Apache peoples: languages, culture, and history of the Southwest Apache Apache refers to several related Native American groups of the American Southwest and southern Plains, speaking Athabaskan languages, with distinct histories, cultures, and modern…

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway A major 19th–20th century American railroad that spurred settlement of the Midwest and Southwest; known for freight and passenger service and its 1996 merger into BNSF.