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