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People could use buffalo for many things, such as for meat or for their fur. Since the buffalo could be used for so many things many people hunted them while moving westward.
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The discovery of gold and silver in 1864 cause many more people to travel westward, everyone was wanting gold and silver.
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The Railroad was invented in 1862 but it took the Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies seen years to finish it.
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Barbed wire was in 1874. By a man named Joseph Glidden. It was invented to fence in their livestock . It was massed produced for may years ,and is still used in mordern day.
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Jesse James was a train and bank robber.
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The first wild west show was called Buffalo Bill, in 1883, these shows usually consisted of traveling performers.
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Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts, authorized the president to divide Indian reservations into separate tracts of land for individual tribal members. These tracts were to be used for farming and cattle grazing.
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Men who traveled along a trail while moving a herd of cattle.
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This act allowed the land to be sold to the settlers.
