Chapter 17

The Development of the West

Frederick Jackson Turnerfrontier thesis

Buffalo Bill Cody

Indian subsistence cultures

Note: Slide on John Henry “Doc” hasbeen moved to slide 29

Slaughter of the Buffalo

Buffalo

Decline of Salmon

US Government’s reservation policy

Battle of Little Big Horn

George Manypenny & Helen Hunt Jackson

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Canada’s Indian Policy

Women’s National Indian Association

Indian Rights Association

Dawes Severalty Act

Government’s Indian School System

Ghost Dance Movement

Wovoka

Massacre at Wounded Knee

Clapp rider to the Indian Appropriations Bill

Note: Timber and Stone Act has been placed in before Mining Frontier

Timber and Stone Act

Stone

Timber

Mining Frontier

Mining and Lumber Communities

Women and Nonwhites in frontier society

Hom

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ent

Conservation Movement

Omnibus Bill of 1889

Clanton Family and Johnny Ringo

Earp Brothers

John Henry “Doc” Holliday

Shoot-out at the OK Corral

• Mark Twain• Bret Harte

Famous Actors• Buffalo Bill• Annie Oakley• Wild Bill Hickock• Poker Alice• Bedrock Tom

Famous Authors

Riparian rights versus prior appropriation

California Irrigation Legislation of 1887

Newlands Reclamation Act

Standard Time Zones

Westward migration, 1870-1890

Life on the Plains

Great Blizzard of 1888

Grasshopper Plagues

Mail-order houses & Rural Free Delivery

Mechanization of Agriculture

Morrill Land Grant Acts

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Hatch Act of 1887

Dry Farming

Luther Burbank

George Washington Carver

Ranching Frontier

Long Drive

Open Ranch Ranching

Barbed Wire