Alan Brinkley, American History 14/e Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West

Highlights The Societies of the Far West The Changing Western Economy The Romance of the West The Dispersal of the Tribes The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Societies of the Far West Cowboy of the West (The Palma Collection/Getty Images) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Societies of the Far West The Western Tribes Caste System Plains Indians Economic Importance of the Buffalo Indian Weaknesses Buffalo runners (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Societies of the Far West Hispanic New Mexico Taos Indian Rebellion Hispanic Resistance Taos, New Mexico (Royalty Free/CORBIS) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Societies of the Far West Hispanic California and Texas Decline of Mission Society Declining Status of Hispanics © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Societies of the Far West The Chinese Migration Racism Building the Transcontinental Railroad Establishment of “Chinatowns” Early Chinatown (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Societies of the Far West Anti-Chinese Sentiments Anti-Coolie Clubs Chinese Exclusion Act Chinese Resistance A Chinese family in San Francisco (National Archives and Records Administration) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Societies of the Far West Migration from the East Homestead Act Government Assistance Norwegian settlers in the 1890s (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Changing Western Economy Labor in the West Limited Social Mobility Racially Stratified Working Class Immigrant orange pickers in Los Angeles (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Changing Western Economy The Arrival of the Miners Life Cycle of a Mining Boom Comstock Load Gender Imbalance © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Changing Western Economy Mining Towns, 1848-1883 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Changing Western Economy The Cattle Kingdom Mexican Origins Chisholm Trail Political Gains for Women Cowboys on a “long drive” (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Changing Western Economy The Cattle Kingdom, c. 1866-1887 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Panorama of Lake Chelan, WA, 1908 (Library of Congress) The Romance of the West The Western Landscape “Rocky Mountain School” The Cowboy Culture Myth of the Cowboy Panorama of Lake Chelan, WA, 1908 (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Romance of the West The Idea of the Frontier Romantic Image of the West Frederic Remington © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Romance of the West Mountain valley (Royalty-Free/CORBIS) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Poster for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show (Library of Congress) The Romance of the West Poster for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Romance of the West Fredrick Jackson Turner The Loss of Utopia Turner’s Frontier Thesis The Loss of Utopia Psychological Loss © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Dispersal of the Tribes White Tribal Policies “Concentration” Policy Poorly Administered Reservations Decimation of the Buffalo Hunting Bison on the Plains (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Dispersal of the Tribes The Indian Wars Indian Resistance Sand Creek Massacre “Indian Hunting” Little Bighorn Chief Joseph “Ghost Dance” Wounded Knee Chief Little Crow, 1851 (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Dispersal of the Tribes The Indian Frontier © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Dispersal of the Tribes The Dawes Act Assimilation © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer Farming on the Plains Key Role of the Railroad Barbed Wire Drought Hard Times for Farmers Drought (© Creatas/PunchStock) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer Map of the Northern Pacific Railroad (Royalty-Free/CORBIS) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer Commercial Agriculture Consequences of Overproduction The Farmers’ Grievances The Agrarian Malaise Isolation © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer Oregon barn (Glen Allison/ Getty Images) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.