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Essential Questions
1. What national issues emerged in
the process of closing the
western frontier?
2. Why does the West hold such an
important place in the American
imagination?
3. In what ways is the West
romanticized in American culture?
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Key Tensions
Native Buffalo Hunters
Americans Railroads
U. S. Government
Cattlemen Sheep Herders
Ranchers Farmers
Key Tensions
Ethnic Nativists
Minorities
Big Business Interests
Environmentalists
[mining, timber]
Local Govt. Officials
Farmers
Buffalo Hunters
Lawlessness of “Civilizing” Forces
the Frontier
[The “Romance” of the West]
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Railroad Construction
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“The Big Four” Railroad Magnates
Charles Crocker Collis Huntington
Mark Hopkins Leland Stanford
Promontory Point, UT
(May 10, 1869)
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The Bronc Buster
Frederick Remington
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Black Cowboys
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Colt .45 Revolver
God didn’t make men equal.
Colonel Colt did!
Legendary Gunslingers & Train Robbers
Jesse James
Billy the Kid
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Dodge City Peace Commission, 1890
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The Traditional View of the West
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William “Buffalo Bill”
Cody’s Wild West Show
“Buffalo Bill” Cody & Sitting Bull
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Legendary Female Western Characters
Calamity Jane Annie Oakley
The Fall of the Cowboy
Frederick Remington
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Video: “American History: At the Western
Frontier” (55:13)
• What was it really like to live in
the Wild West? Meet the people
who settled the American West and
explore the lives they built for
themselves there. Includes one
feature and three shorter segments.
Changes in the West—Looks at the
transcontinental railroad and how it
changed the makeup of America's
western lands.
• From Boomtown to Ghost Town—
Discover what happened to
boomtowns after the gold and
silver were mined.
• Living the Frontier Life—Explores
the development of a land that
came to be known as the Wild
West.
• Fact vs. Fiction: Movies of the Old Pay attention! Your assignments follow!
West—Debunks the many myths
surrounding the Wild West.
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Prospecting
Mining Centers: 1900
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Anaconda Copper Mining Co. (MT)
Mining (“Boom”) Towns--
Now Ghost Towns
Calico, CA
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Complete for “How did the
Cattle Industry Begin?”
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The
Cattle
Trails
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Land Use: 1880s
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Use whatever resources available to draw and label the following
cattle trails: 1) The Western Trail, 2) The Goodnight & Loving
Trail, 3) The Chrisholm Trail, 4) The Shawnee Trail.
New Agricultural
Technology
Steel Plow [“Sod Buster”]
“Prairie Fan”
Water Pump
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Barbed Wire
Joseph Glidden
The Range Wars
Sheep Cattle
Herders Ranchers
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Regional Population Distribution
by Race: 1900
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Regional Population Distribution
by Race: 1900
Black
“Exoduster”
Homesteaders
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Blacks Moving West
The Buffalo Soldiers on the Great Plains
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A Romantic View
The Buffalo Soldiers & the Indian Wars
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The “Chinese Question”
 Exclusion Act (1882)
- Oriental Exclusion Act
- Chinese Exclusion Act
The Tong Wars: 1850s-1920s
Began in San Francisco in 1875.
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African American & Chinese
Populations:
1880-1900
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Frontier Settlements: 1870-1890
Homesteads From Public Lands
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1887
Land
Promotion
Poster
for the
Dakota
Territories
What is the Message of this Picture?
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The Realty--A Pioneer’s Sod House, SD
Rain Follows the Plow!
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