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Jesses James
Jesses James was an Aerican outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and munder from the state of Missouri and the most famous menber of the James-Younger-Gang. -
Extinction of buffalo in 1800s
As the populations of the United States pushed West in the early 1800s, trade for the fur, skin, and meat of the American Bidon began in the great plains, Bison slaughter was further encouraged by the US governemnt as a means of starving out or removing Native American populations that relied on the bison for food. -
Transcontinental Railroad System
In 1862, the Pacific Act charted the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies, and tasked them with building a transontinental railroad that would link the United States from east to west. -
Homestead Act of 1862
Singed into law by Presdient Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act sncouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. -
Discovers of large amounts of Gold and Sliver
Gold was discovered in 1864 in Silver Bow Creek. Native Americans and explorers passed through the region, but found no attractions for permanent settlement until two prospectors detected placer deposits in the creek; they named the site the Missoula lode. Investors William Clark and Andrew Davis constructed mills for extracting gold and silver -
shift from “long drive” to “cattle ranching”
Ctatle drives were a major economic activity in the American west, particulary between 1866 and 1886, when 20 million cattle were herded from Texas to railheads in kansas for shipments to stockyards in Chicago and points east. -
Groth of new owns and cites to support cattle mining and farmig industries
By the end of Civil War, as many as five million longhorn cattle, descendants of old Spanish stock, roamed wild in Texas. These tough, rangy animals sported horns with a spread of as much as eight feet. At first they were hunted only for their hides since there was no way to get them to markets in the East. With the building of the Transcontinental Railroads, it became possible to transport these cattle to the eastern market -
Barbed Wire
Fencing in the East had consisted of the ready and available and native materials of the land. In the East and New England fencing had been constructed of stone walls. Along the Atlantic seaboard, facing consisted of wooden rail fences. The lack of material for those early time farmers was truely problematic, so they came up with barbed wire. -
Wild West Shows
Wild West Shows were traveling vaudeville performances in the United States and Europe. The first and prototypical wild west show was Buffalo Bills, formed in 1883 and lating until 1913. -
Dawes Act of 1886
Approved on February 8, 1887, "An Act to Povide for Allotment of Lands in Severaity to Indians on the Various Reservations," knowm as the Dawes Act, emphazised severaity, the treatrment og Native Amercans as individuals rather than as members of tribes.
