1. The Transformation of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1860-1900
Chapter 17

2. Guiding Questions
1.) What role did the army and the railroads play in the settlement of the West?
2.) How did whites justify western settlement and displacement of Native Americans, and how did Native Americans react to attempts to confine them to reservations?
3.) How did the Wild West image of cowboys and Indians originate, and why is that myth still popular?
4.) Why did some Americans wish to conserve the natural resources and beauty of the West, and how did this lead to the creating of national parks?

3. The West The Plains Indians The Great Plains Buffalo
Professional Buffalo killers
“Buffalo Bill” Cody

4. The West The Destruction of Nomadic Indian Life Reservations
The war on Native Americans
Indian Territory
The Great Sioux Reservation
The reaction to reservation life

5. The West
Custer’s Last Stand
Gold
The Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876

6. The West “Saving” the Indians Helen Hunt Jackson’s
A Century of Dishonor”
Assimilation
The Dawes Act, 1887
The Battle of Wounded Knee

7. The West The Transcontinental Railroad Promontory Point, Utah
The role of Immigrants
The Pacific Railway Act
Land Bureaus

8. The West Homesteading The Homestead Act Land Speculators
The role of Lumber Companies
The effects of Homesteading

9. The West Financial Problems for farmers Life in the west New states
The role of Women in the West
The Southwestern Frontier

10. The West Mining Towns Boom Towns Ghost Towns Boom and Bust
The effects of mining in the west

11. The West Cattle Ranching The Open Range The Texas Longhorn
The Long Drive
The role of the Cowboy

12. The West Bonanza Farms California “Sunkist” The Oklahoma Land Rush
The Indian Territory

13. The West Creating Legends The frontiersman
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
Dime Novel Heroes
Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks