American West

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  • 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'