Frontier Settlement Patterns to 1877 The High Plains as an exception

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Frontier Settlement Patterns to 1877 -The
High Plains as an exception
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Precipitation
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physiographic
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vegetation
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1865-1877

• Many bloody wars before the Plains Indians,
  well-adapted to the unique environment were
  finally defeated

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II. Impact on Native Americans-Indian
problem-Carlisle
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-Indian Agent --ambassador to enforcer
--Indian police -Dawes Severalty Act
--friends of the Indians reformers
--assimilation/land tenure
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III. Western Mythology -the West in
the American Mind -the
physical frontier fades --Wild West Shows
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IV. American Settlement of the High Plains -Open
Range Ranching --Moorish cattle
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-cowboys
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-farming -competition -barbed wire