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0 It must be "out there away in the West". 0-

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  • 0 It must be "out there away in the West".
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0 It must be "out there away in the West". 0-
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0 Perhaps because the settlement of the United States began on the East coast and gradually proceeded West, you often hear the phrases "out West" and "back East." During the early years of the U.S., the West was the adventurous, unexplored frontier. Even today, a New Yorker might say "I've never been out West" and someone born in California might say "I've never been back East." The others, o
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