Western Settlement (jan 1, 1862 – jan 1, 1898)

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ECONOMY***********
Mining Industry
- boom and bust cycle
- conditions -> extremely dangerous, many
foreigners
- impact -> environmental and Native land
destruction

Cattle Industry
- Vaqueros
- bust -> bad winter, prices drop, overgrazing,
barbed wire

MYTH VS REALITY******
Romanticized View
- ignored complexities of Native life and
western life

Melting Pot
- Chinese immigration (railroads and Gold Rush)
- African American and Mexican cowboys
- Utah enters union (1896)

Women's suffrage
- to encourage women to move west

TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST LIFE********
- life for plains Natives had greatly changed
- increasing pressure on Native life
- severe decline in bison population

FREQUENT NATIVE WARS **********

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