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CHAPTER 17

THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST, 1860–1900


Native Americans andthe Trans-Mississippi West

• The Plains Indians • The Assault on Nomadic Indian Life • Custer’s Last Stand, 1876 • “Saving” the Indians• The Ghost Dance and the End of India• Resistance on the Great Plains, 1890


Major Indian Battlesin the West


Western Indian Reservations, 1890


Settling the West

• The First Transcontinental Railroad• Settlers and the Railroad • Homesteading on the Great Plains • New Farms, New Markets • Building a Society and Achieving Statehood • The Spread of Mormonism


Transcontinental Railroads and Federal Land Grants, 1850–1900


The Settlement ofthe Trans-Mississippi West, 1860–1890


Exploiting the Western Landscape

• The Mining Frontier • Cowboys and the Cattle Frontier • Cattle Towns and Prostitutes• Bonanza Farms • The Oklahoma Land Rush, 1889


The Mining andCattle Frontiers, 1860–1890


The Oklahoma Land Rush,1889–1906


The West of Life and Legend

• The American Adam and the Dime-Novel Hero• Revitalizing the Frontier Legend • Beginning a National Parks Movement

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