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Essential Questions1. What national issues emerged in
the process of closing the western frontier?
2. Why does the West hold such an important place in the American imagination?
3. In what ways is the West romanticized in American culture?
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Key Tensions
Native Americans
Buffalo HuntersRailroadsU. S. Government
Cattlemen Sheep Herders
Ranchers Farmers
Key Tensions
EthnicMinorities
Nativists
EnvironmentalistsBig Business Interests
[mining, timber]Local Govt. OfficialsFarmersBuffalo Hunters
Lawlessness of the Frontier
“Civilizing” Forces
[The “Romance” of the West]
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Railroad Construction
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“The Big Four” Railroad Magnates
Charles Crocker
Mark Hopkins Leland Stanford
Collis Huntington
Promontory Point, UT(May 10, 1869)
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The Bronc BusterFrederick Remington
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Black Cowboys
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Colt .45 Revolver
God didn’t make men equal.Colonel Colt did!
Legendary Gunslingers & Train Robbers
Jesse James
Billy the Kid
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Dodge City Peace Commission, 1890
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The Traditional View of the West
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William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild West Show
“Buffalo Bill” Cody & Sitting Bull
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Legendary Female Western Characters
Calamity Jane Annie Oakley
The Fall of the CowboyFrederick Remington
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Video: “American History: At the Western
Frontier” (55:13) • What was it really like to live in
the Wild West? Meet the people
who settled the American West and
explore the lives they built for
themselves there. Includes one
feature and three shorter segments.
Changes in the West—Looks at the
transcontinental railroad and how it
changed the makeup of America's
western lands.
• From Boomtown to Ghost Town—
Discover what happened to
boomtowns after the gold and
silver were mined.
• Living the Frontier Life—Explores
the development of a land that
came to be known as the Wild
West.
• Fact vs. Fiction: Movies of the Old
West—Debunks the many myths
surrounding the Wild West.
Pay attention! Your assignments follow!
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Prospecting
Mining Centers: 1900
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Anaconda Copper Mining Co. (MT)
Mining (“Boom”) Towns--Now Ghost Towns
Calico, CA
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Complete for “How did the
Cattle Industry Begin?”
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The
Cattle
Trails
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Land Use: 1880s
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Use whatever resources available to draw and label the following
cattle trails: 1) The Western Trail, 2) The Goodnight & Loving
Trail, 3) The Chrisholm Trail, 4) The Shawnee Trail.
New AgriculturalTechnology
“Prairie Fan”Water Pump
Steel Plow [“Sod Buster”]
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Barbed Wire
Joseph Glidden
The Range Wars
SheepHerders
CattleRanchers
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Regional Population Distributionby Race: 1900
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Regional Population Distributionby Race: 1900
Black“Exoduster”Homesteaders
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Blacks Moving West
The Buffalo Soldiers on the Great Plains
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A Romantic View
The Buffalo Soldiers & the Indian Wars
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The “Chinese Question”
Exclusion Act (1882)- Oriental Exclusion Act- Chinese Exclusion Act
The Tong Wars: 1850s-1920s
Began in San Francisco in 1875.
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African American & ChinesePopulations:
1880-1900
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Frontier Settlements: 1870-1890
Homesteads From Public Lands
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1887Land
PromotionPosterfor theDakota
Territories
What is the Message of this Picture?
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The Realty--A Pioneer’s Sod House, SD
Rain Follows the Plow!
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