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Amsco – The West Chapter 16
Great American Desert
Life until 1865
Mining
Pike’s Peak
Comstock Lode
Placer mining
Miner’s Tax/ Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
Cattle
Texas
Cattle-towns
Barbed wire
Farming
Homestead Act
Speculators
Adjusting to conditions (new techniques and crops)
Frederick Jackson Turner
Frontier thesis
Native Americans
Lifestyles
Reservation policy
Wars
Assimilation
Dawes Act
Ghost Dance
(p 321)
Changes in Agriculture
Falling prices
Railroads dominate
(p. 324)
Turner v. Glaab v. Cronon-
Theories on western development