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Decline of Buffalo
For many years buffalo were hunted and used for several different things by the Indians and they were on the plains in such an abundance they were always there for the Indians use. When the Europeans came over, however, they began to industrialize and changes things on the plains, causing a disturbance in the life and migration of the buffalo. When the railroad tracks were built in 1867, the buffalo could no longer migrate as they had been in the past and since the railroads made transporting -
Crazy Horse
The Bozeman Trail was the primary trade route for the Gold Rush pioneers. Unfortunately, the trail led straight through Native American territory. This caused action from Natives commanded by Red Cloud to attempt raiding parties all along the trail. The US government sent Lieutenant William J Fetterman to take down Red Cloud’s raiding parties. Meanwhile Crazy Horse led a force of six men around to distract Fetterman’s forces so that a force of 2000 natives could later crush them. -
Trans-Continental Railroad
As steam powered railroads were implemented into America, the idea wasn’t if they would build a continental railroad, but how and where. Three original paths were pitched, the northern route from Iowa and the great lakes up through Montana and into the Oregon territory. This was almost immediately thrown out due to accessibility in the winter, the central route to avoid the worst of the Rocky Mountains by going through Nebraska, southern Wyoming, and a good amount of the Oregon Trail, and then t -
Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph was the leader of the Nez Perce tribe that was forced out of their land, Wallowa Valley, by the United States federal government. Later, the tribe was moved into a reserve in Idaho. Before they went there, however, Chief Joseph took his tribe and fought against the American army, travelling about 1,170 miles, becoming the Nez Perce War. They put up a good fight and displayed a spectacular fighting technique for their opposition against America but eventually they were too much and -
Montgomeryt Ward Mail Order Catalog
Right after the Civil War, a traveling salesman, Montgomery Ward, published a catalog sheet that had 163 items and by 1884, he had 240 pages with thousands of items. With his catalog being so popular, he started a new era of ordering mail and almost everyone was using it. By the 19th century, catalogs were a very efficient way of marketing products with everything also being at a fair price. -
Red River War
The Red River War was a military campaign that was launched in 1874 by the United States army. The campaign was an attempt to remove Indian tribes (mainly the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Native American) from the southern plains and relocate them to Indian reservations. Although the last tribe didn’t surrender until the middle of 1875, the war was essentially over by the end of 1874 because the Indians didn’t have enough supplies or strength to continue fighting. However, t -
Joseph Glidden
Joseph Glidden, an American farmer, lived from 1813 to 1906. Born in Charleston, New Hampshire, Glidden and his family moved to Clarendon, New York. Then, in 1843, Glidden moved to Illinois with his wife, Clarissa Foster. However, Foster and her two sons died during the move and Glidden later married Lucinda Warne. Using a coffee mill to create the barbs, Glidden made barbed wire by placing the barbs on a wire and twisting another wire around them to keep the barbs in place. -
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Black Hills Gold Rush
When good amounts of placer gold was found in rocks, soil, and streams around Custer, South Dakota, prospectors knew a large deposit had to be nearby. Fred and Moses Manuel, Alex Engh and Hank Harney discovered the location of the Homestake mine in Lead, South Dakota. The mine was unique and George Hearst, Lloyd Trevis, and James Ben Ali Haggin, bought it from them for $70,000 the following year. The mine continued to produce gold in many different forms for around 125 years. By 1890 the Homesta -
Little Big Horn
During the Great Sioux War, the U.S forces were sent to Little Big Horn to stop the native raids across the countries. General Custer considered attacking the natives in their camps but he received reports that his army’s tracks had been discovered by the Native Americans and he determined it would be in every ones best interest to attack without any hesitation. In the early minutes of the battle, Major Reno was routed to Captain Benteen. Benteen Held the line and took a bullet to the heel whi
