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Text Chapter 17 AMSCO Chapter 16

Indian Wars lecture PPT: Ch 17 reading guide (assignment given over Xmas break last year):

__Weds 1/4__


 * Text pp. 655-665**

Terms: Ghost Dance movement, Sitting Bull, Sioux Nation, Wounded Knee massacre, "Western" geography and environment (Great Plains, Rocky Mts), demographics of post-Civil War western migration, Exodusters, 1862 Homestead Act, Timber Culture/Desert Land/Timber and Stone Acts, Utah Territory, Mormons, 1862 Pacific RR Act, Central/Union Pacific RRs, transcontinental RR, Promontory Point, Plains Indian nations, horse/buffalo culture

__Thurs 1/5__


 * Text pp. 665-671**

Terms: Department of Indian Affairs, 1851 Treaty of Ft Laramie, Sand Creek Massacre, Gen. William T. Sherman, 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty, 1868 Treaty of Ft. Laramie, Black Hills gold rush, George Armstrong Custer, Battle of the Little Bighorn/Custer's Last Stand, Helen Hunt Jackson///Century of Dishonor//, Women's National Indian Association, Indian Rights Association, 1887 Dawes General Allotment Act, assimilation policy, "mining frontier," Pike's Peak/Colorado gold rush, Comstock Lode, prospectors and panning, hydraulic mining, Texas longhorn cattle, open range, Chisholm Trail, cowtowns (Abilene, KS), long drives, cowboys///vaqueros//, Joseph Glidden, barbed wire, enclosure, Plains agriculture (dry farming, windmills, irrigation), Indian Territory/Oklahoma and Boomers/Sooners, agribusiness and commercial farming, lumber industry, land reform, Henry George, //Progress and Poverty//, Yellowstone National Park and conservation, 1891 Forest Reserve Act, John Muir, the Sierra Club

__Fri-Sun 1/6-8__


 * Text pp. 671-688**

Terms: "mining frontier," Pike's Peak/Colorado gold rush, Comstock Lode, prospectors and panning, hydraulic mining, Texas longhorn cattle, open range, Chisholm Trail, cowtowns (Abilene, KS), long drives, cowboys///vaqueros//, Joseph Glidden, barbed wire, enclosure, Plains agriculture (dry farming, windmills, irrigation), Indian Territory and Boomers/Sooners, agribusiness and commercial farming, lumber industry, land reform, Henry George, //Progress and Poverty//, Yellowstone National Park and conservation, John Muir, the Sierra Club, "Wild West," saloons brothels and gambling halls, western gun culture and gunslingers (Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, Doc Holliday), women in the west, Chinese "coolies" and the mining/RR industries, San Francisco and Chinatown, 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, the western (literary genre), Buffalo Bill's (William Cody) Wild West Show, Frederick Jackson Turner and the frontier thesis