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Development of the Plains
American West
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Early Settlement of the West
American West
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Cards (178)
PI Way of Life
1835-95
Indian Removal Act
1830
Indian Appropriations Act
1851
Oregon
Trail
1836+
Donner Party
1846
Mormon Migration
1846-7
Farming problems
1840/
1850s
Fort Laramie
1851
Early Lawlessness
1835-62
Homestead Act
1862
Pacific Railroad
Act
1862
Little Crow's War
1862
Sand Creek Massacre
1864
Red Cloud's War
1866-68
President Grant's Peace Policy
1868
Cattle Industry:
Goodnight-Loving Trail
1866
+
Cattle Industry
:
Iliff and Plains
1866+
Cattle Industry
:
McCoy and Abilene
1867
Cattle Industry
:
Cowboys
1860s-87
Cattle Industry
:
Ranchers
v
Homesteaders
1870s
Timber Culture Act
1873
Chisholm Trail
2-3 months
6 for G-L
15-20 miles
a day
3,000 cattle
12 cowboys
Trail boss
$
100
month
Challenges on the trail
Stampedes
Snakes
Rivers
Indians
Cowboys
needed other jobs in
winter
Cowboys
often spent
wages
in cow towns -
alcohol
and
women
Round-up
in
early spring
Work on the ranch too old for most over
25
Ranches closer to
railheads
meant drives took
days
not months
Winter
was
tough
- could be send out on their own for whole time to tend cattle
Ranchers
Used public land - fine if no competition
Homesteaders
Accused of
rustling
and
barbed wire
hurting cows
Ranchers
threatened
homesteaders
Severe punishments for
rustling
in
'cattle states'
Led to open conflicts between
ranchers
and
homesteaders
Huge
strains on local law enforcement
Timber Culture Act
Aimed to support
homesteaders
by planting
trees
160
acres from
Homestead Act
was not enough
Homesteaders
could
claim 160 more acres
if 1/4 was
planted
with
trees
16m acres
claimed by
1878
1/3rd
actually
'proven up'
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