1. The Great American Frontier

2. U.S. Expansion of the West * The Louisiana Purchase * Annexation of Texas * Oregon Territory * Gadsden Purchase * Occupation of California

3. Territories Territories

4. The People of the West Removed Native Americans Indigenous Indian Tribes Spanish Missionaries Miners & Tradesmen Hispanic Population The first “American cowboy” Chinese Population Anti-Chinese Sentiment Chinese Exclusion Act Mormons Joseph Smith

5. Great American Desert vs. New Frontier The East begins to move to the West Expansion of the Railroads Homestead Act –Oklahoma Land Rush The Timber Culture Act The Desert Land Act The Political Atmosphere of the West Territories to Statehood

6. East meets West: The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad 1869

7. Great Oklahoma Land Rush

8. Sod Homestead of the 1880’s

9. The Economy of the West Mining Boomtown to Ghostown Ranching—Cowboy Culture Cowboys Cattle King Range Wars Commercial Farming Obstacles Fences Joseph Glidden & I.L. Ellwood Water Reverse migration

10. Farming as an International Business Cash Crops Transportation & Communication Advances Rags or riches

11. Farmers’ Grievances The Farmer and the Railroad The Farmer and the Bank Price controls The average life of the western farmer

12. Romance of the West Literature & Art Frederick Jackson Turner Albert Bierstadt & Thomas Moran The Virginian Mark Twain Tourism Resort Hotels Entertainment Wild West Co.

13. Frederick Jackson Turner

14. “Buffalo” Bill Cody

15. Invading Indian Territory Treaties & Reservations Indian Peace Commission Bureau of Indian Affairs Extermination of the Buffalo Herds Buffalo hunters

16. Widespread rebellion Battle of Little Bighorn –Col. Custer –Sitting Bull –Crazy Horse Nez Perce’ –Chief Joseph Apaches –Geronimo Battle at Wounded Knee Ghostdance Dawes Act

17. Depiction of Battle of Little Bighorn June 25, 1876

19. Chief BigFoot

20. Wounded Knee Massacre December 29, 1890

22. General Custer

23. Geronimo

24. Chief Joseph

25. Sitting Bull