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Extinction of the Buffalo
The US Government encouraged Bison slaughter, witch then lead to starvation of the Native American's because the relied on the Buffalo for food. -
Growth of New Towns, and Cities to Support Cattle, Mining and Farming Industries
Mining helped the growth of towns in the West because people wanted to be rich and find gold. -
Jesse James
After Jesse James death he came a legrndary figure of the Wild West. Jesse James was a gang leader, bank and train robber, and also a murderer from the state of Missouri. -
Discoveries of Large Amounts of Gold and Silver
The finding of gold and silver cased excitment over the United States. -
Homestead Act of 1882
Several United States federal laws that gave ownership of land, of little or no cost. In the United States this consisted of grants totaling 160 acers of unappropriated federal land within the boundaries of the public states. -
Transcontinental Railroad Systems
Transcontinental Railroads replaced the dangerous and slpower transportation (wagon trains, stagecoach lines etc) that crossed the country by land and difficult sea journey around the Southern tip of South America -
Barbed Wire
Barbed Wire was invented by Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio. Barbed Wire was the very first succsesful way of keeping animals in there pens, and not exscaping. -
Wild West Show
On May 19, 1883 Williiam R. Cody opened up Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Omaha, Nebraska. -
Shift from "Long Drive" to "Cattle Ranching"
Cattle Drives were the major economic activity in American West. 20 million cattle headed from Texas to Railheads in Kansas for shipments to stockyards in Chicago -
Dawes of 1886
A Act to provide the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the various Reservation.
