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Miners, Ranchers, and Railroads By: Crystal Chan & Sophia Chin [c] sophia’s graphics & rightful owners of the following pictures

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Miners, Ranchers, and RailroadsBy: Crystal Chan & Sophia

Chin[c] sophia’s graphics & rightful owners of the following pictures

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Mining Boom Brings Growth• With the admission of the state of California Union in

1850 the western boundary of American Frontier; an undeveloped area which reached the Pacific Ocean

• After the war the increase of settlements grew quickly and the U.S. population spread throughout the West

• The miners, ranchers, and farmers remade landscape to adapt to the new environment

• The new landscape led to a large and successful railroad industry

• Gold & silver were the most valuable natural resource

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Big Business• Located in Western Nevada• In 1859 a miner Henry Comstock discovered a huge deposit

of gold & silver in Nevada which is now known as Comstock Lode

• Expensive equipment is needed to remove the gold & silver so the poor people who owed mining land couldn’t afford machinery so the rich people bought the land

• Miners often breathed dusty air and it was hot and stuffy which lead to lung disease

• Other risks are the walls caving in and badly planned explosions

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Settlers• People from all over

the world came to the West

- Eastern U.S, Europe, Central and South America, Asia, and people from Mexico

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New Town• Mining booms = Boomtown • Towns grows when mine opens (disappear as

fast) which includes general stores, saloons, and boarding houses

• Almost no family or women in boomtowns

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Women did what?• Washed, cooked, raised families, made

clothes, chopped would established schools, & work newspapers

• Help turn mining camp site successful so it became permanent towns

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Importance of Cowboys• Cowboys were workers who took care of rancher’s cattle• They borrowed techniques and tools form vaqueros,

Mexican hands who cared for cattle and horses - i.e. western saddle, the lariat- rope used for lassoing

cattle, and the felt hat which they changed into the high-peaked cowboy hat

• The most important and dangerous duty for a cowboy is the cattle drive, a long journey in which cowboys herded cattle to the market or northern plains for grazing

- i.e. lasted several months and covered hundred of miles

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Importance of Cowboys Continued……

• One of the trails the cowboy used was the Chisholm trail which was one of the earliest and most popular trail to use

- The trail runs from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas

• Some cowboys made life rough and violent in cattle towns