Many consider Indiana to be Midwest, this is in fact wrong and to be discussed later. John Babsone Lane Soule, the editor of the Indiana based Terre Haute Express when saying "go west" was referring to Colorado, perhaps more specifically Greeley as he wrote it as if Horace Greeley said it, hence the confusion of who to attribute for the saying. And in fact don't believe Colorado was even a state then and the eastern front range may have still been part of Kansas territory. Thus the "west" is more appropriately attributed to Colorado to California coast and other appropriate states. So clearly even the west edge of North Dakota was not "west" and certainly not the east portion of the state. Obviously "mid west" would be somewhere in Utah/Nevada and thus Indiana from thence one might go west can not be considered Midwest.
Someone else can count to see if I violated the 49.5 rule.