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Essential Questions 1.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?

Key Tensions Native Americans Buffalo Hunters Railroads U. S. Government CattlemenSheep Herders RanchersFarmers

Key Tensions Ethnic Minorities Nativists Environmentalists Big Business Interests [mining, timber] Local Govt. Officials Farmers Buffalo Hunters Lawlessness of the Frontier “Civilizing” Forces [The “Romance” of the West]

Railroad Construction

“The Big Four” Railroad Magnates Charles Crocker Mark Hopkins Leland Stanford Collis Huntington

Promontory Point, UT (May 10, 1869)

The Bronc Buster Frederick Remington

Black Cowboys

Colt.45 Revolver God didn’t make men equal. Colonel Colt did!

Legendary Gunslingers & Train Robbers Jesse James Billy the Kid

Dodge City Peace Commission, 1890

ProspectingProspecting

Mining Centers: 1900

Anaconda Copper Mining Co. (MT)

Mining (“Boom”) Towns-- Now Ghost Towns Calico, CA

TheCattleTrailsTheCattleTrails

Land Use: 1880s

New Agricultural Technology “Prairie Fan” Water Pump Steel Plow [“Sod Buster”]

Barbed Wire Joseph Glidden

The Range Wars Sheep Herders Cattle Ranchers

Regional Population Distribution by Race: 1900

Black “Exoduster” Homesteader s

Blacks Moving West

The Buffalo Soldiers on the Great Plains

A Romantic View

The Buffalo Soldiers & the Indian Wars

The “Chinese Question”  Exclusion Act (1882) - Oriental Exclusion Act - Chinese Exclusion Act

The Tong Wars: 1850s-1920s Began in San Francisco in Began in San Francisco in 1875.

African American & Chinese Populations: