Ranching and Mining

1
Ranching and Mining

• The use of Horses brought over by the Spanish
  influenced Ranching How?
• How did the area effect the movement west
• Maverickswere unbranded cattle How did this
  effect way of life

2
Cattle Drives

• Growing Cities in the North provide huge meat
  markets.
• But were there any rail in Texas?
• The result was long drives or trails like Chislom
  in Texas to Abiliene a station on the Kansas
  Pacific Railroad

3
Life of the Cow hand

• What type of people might have done this?
• The idea of the Wild West Romanticized in Novels
  like The life and Adventure of Nate Love

4
Investing in Profits

• Was cattle protifiable?
• Covered half the size of Europe
• What would cause the end of the cattle industry.
  Disease, drought, overproduction
• 1885-1887 Severe drought and cold also the
  impact of Barbed Wire

5
Mining

• 1858 Gold and Silver discovered in Colorado
• By 1887 gold in Black Hills South Dakota,
• Copper in Montana
• Comstock Lode in Virginia City Nevada yielded
  over 300 million dollars worth of Silver Ore
• Camps sprung up and shifted entire towns these
  were up of many individuals came together.
• What happened to these towns?

6
Enforcing the Law

• Read the Quote on page 480.
• Why was there a need for vigilance commitees?
• What role did mass meetings play

7
The Wild West as Idea

• Word of the life out west spreads through the use
  of Dime Novels and Ballads told the tails of Wild
  Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and the Jesse James.
• Annie Oakley and Vaudeville.
• Despite this it is marred by a destruction of
  wildlife, and a culture of a people