1. The Incorporation of the West.
I. Linking East and West.
A. Surveys and Land Grants.
B. Building the Transcontinental Lines.
C. The “Big Four.”
D. The Northern Line.
II. The Cattle Kingdom.
A. The Trail Drives.
B. The Range Cattle Boom.
C. The “Big Die-up.”

2. I. Linking East and West.

3. A. Surveys and Land Grants.

4. The Pacific Railroad Surveys 1853-1855
Maj. Isaac I. Stevens led the survey between 47E and 49E on what became the Great Northern Line between St. Paul and Seattle.
Lt. John Gunnison led the survey along 38E, but was killed with 7 of his men by Ute Indians in Utah in October of Lt. E.G. Beckwith completed the survey.
Lt. Ameil Weeks Whipple explored along 35E west from Fort Smith Arkansas to Los Angeles.
Lt. John Parke explored east from San Diego, while Capt. John Pope moved west from Ft. Washita on the 32E route.

8. B. Building the Transcontinental Lines.

10. Many UP Workers were Irish Immigrants

11. Chinese Laborers on the Central Pacific Line in the Sierra Nevada

12. Promontory Point
May 10, 1869

13. The Credit Mobilier Scandal
Thomas Durant
Sidney Dillon

15. C. The “Big Four.”

16. Charles Crocker
Leland Stanford
Mark Hopkins
Collis P. Huntington

17. Huntington and the “Octopus”

18. D. The Northern Line.

19. The Northern Pacific.
Henry Villard

20. The Great Northern
James J. Hill

21. II. The Cattle Kingdom.

22. A. The Trail Drives.

25. The Cowboy Life Mostly poor young men with few opportunities.
1 in 7 was Black, 1 in 7 was Hispanic.
Paid $35-$45 per month.

26. Trail Drives covered up to 1,200 Miles and took 3 Months

28. Bat Masterson
Wyatt Earp
Dodge City, 1876

29. Wild Bill Hickock

30. B. The Range Cattle Boom.

31. Open Range
Barbed Wire and Branding Irons are Essential

32. Theodore Roosevelt playing Cowboy

33. C. The “Big Die-Up.”

35. XIT Ranch