1. The Closing of the Western Frontier Susan Pojer

3. WESTWARD MOVEMENT After government was stable people in the east began to Move west even more than before. Manifest Destiny, Railroads, Adventure, free land and profit all lead to the growing need of Americans to migrate to the frontier. ***Why would the government offer free land to people out west?

4. the Railroad builders

6. Railroad Construction

7. Promontory Point, UT (May 10, 1869)

8. the cowboys

10. The Bronc Buster Frederick Remington

11. Black Cowboys

12. the GUNSLINGERS

13. Colt .45 Revolver God didn’t make men equal. Colonel Colt did!

14. Legendary Gunslingers & Train Robbers Jesse James Billy the Kid

15. Dodge City Peace Commission, 1890

16. the MINERS

17. Prospecting

18. Mining Centers: 1900

19. Anaconda Copper Mining Co. (MT)

20. Mining (“Boom”) Towns-- Now Ghost Towns Calico, CA

21. The Cattlemen & the Sheep herders

23. Homesteads From Public Lands

25. The Cattle Trails

26. Land Use: 1880s

27. New Agricultural Technology “ Prairie Fan” Water Pump Steel Plow [“Sod Buster”]

28. Barbed Wire Joseph Glidden

29. The Range Wars Sheep Herders Cattle Ranchers

30. The Farmers

32. What is the Message of this Picture?

33. The Realty--A Pioneer’s Sod House, SD

34. Frontier Settlements: 1870-1890

35. Minority groups in the West

36. Black “Exoduster” Homesteaders

37. Blacks Moving West

38. The Buffalo Soldiers on the Great Plains

39. A Romantic View

40. The Buffalo Soldiers & the Indian Wars

42. the plains indians

44. Treaty of Ft. Laramie (1851) Colorado Gold Rush (1859)

46. Colonel John Chivington Kill and scalp all, big and little! Sandy Creek, CO Massacre November 29, 1864

47. Capt. William J. Fetterman 80 soldiers massacred December 21, 1866

48. Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek (1867) 2 nd Treaty of Ft. Laramie (1868) Reservation Policy

49. Gold Found in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory! 1874

51. The Battle of Little Big Horn 1876 Chief Sitting Bull Gen. George Armstrong Custer

53. Chief Joseph I will fight no more forever! Nez Percé tribal retreat (1877)

54. Geronimo, Apache Chief: Hopeless Cause

55. Dawes Severalty Act (1887): Assimilation Policy Carlisle Indian School, PA

58. Arapahoe “Ghost Dance”, 1890

60. Chief Big Foot’s Lifeless Body Wounded Knee, SD, 1890

61. Indian Reservations Today

62. Crazy Horse Monument: Black Hills, SD Lakota Chief

63. Korczak Ziolkowski, Sculptor Crazy Horse Monument His vision of the finished memorial.

64. Mt. Rushmore: Black Hills, SD

65. the myth & legend of the west

66. The Traditional View of the West

67. William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild West Show

68. “ Buffalo Bill” Cody & Sitting Bull

69. Legendary Female Western Characters Calamity Jane Annie Oakley

70. The Fall of the Cowboy Frederick Remington

71. what were the long-term effects of the westward experience?

72. Destruction of the Buffalo Herds The near extinction of the buffalo.

73. Yellowstone National Park First national park established in 1872.

74. National Parks

75. Conservation Movement John Muir With President Theodore Roosevelt

76. Sierra Club Founded in 1892