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Essential Questions1. 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 Americans

Buffalo HuntersRailroadsU. S. Government

Cattlemen Sheep Herders

Ranchers Farmers

Key Tensions

EthnicMinorities

Nativists

EnvironmentalistsBig Business Interests

[mining, timber]Local Govt. OfficialsFarmersBuffalo Hunters

Lawlessness of the Frontier

“Civilizing” Forces

[The “Romance” of the West]

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Railroad Construction

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“The Big Four” Railroad Magnates

Charles Crocker

Mark Hopkins Leland Stanford

Collis Huntington

Promontory Point, UT(May 10, 1869)

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The Bronc BusterFrederick 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 CowboyFrederick 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

West—Debunks the many myths

surrounding the Wild West.

Pay attention! Your assignments follow!

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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 AgriculturalTechnology

“Prairie Fan”Water Pump

Steel Plow [“Sod Buster”]

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Barbed Wire

Joseph Glidden

The Range Wars

SheepHerders

CattleRanchers

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Regional Population Distributionby Race: 1900

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Regional Population Distributionby 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 & ChinesePopulations:

1880-1900

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Frontier Settlements: 1870-1890

Homesteads From Public Lands

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1887Land

PromotionPosterfor theDakota

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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