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1 The American Promise: A History of the United States Fourth Edition CHAPTER 17 The Contested West 1870–1900 Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s Roark Johnson Cohen Stage Hartmann Lawson

2 Conquest and Empire in the West Indian Removal and the Reservation System The Decimation of the Great Bison Herds and the Fight for the Black Hills The Dawes Act and Indian Land Allotment Indian Resistance and Survival

3 Gold Fever and the Mining West Mining on the Comstock Lode Territorial Government The Diverse Peoples of the West

4 Land Fever Moving West: Homesteaders and Speculators Ranchers and Cowboys Tenants, Sharecroppers, and Migrants Commercial Farming and Industrial Cowboys

5 Chapter 17 The Contested West: 1870–1900 Map 17.1 The Loss of Indian Lands, 1850–1890 (p. 594) Map 17.2 Western Mining, 1848–1890 (p. 606) Map 17.3 Federal Land Grants to Railroads and the Development of the West, 1850–1900 (p. 614) Figure 17.1 Changes in Rural and Urban Populations, 1870–1900 (p. 618) “Slaughtered for the Hide” (p. 596) Railroad Locomotive (p. 613) Buffalo Bill Poster (p. 621)

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