Cowboys

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Cowboys miners
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Cowboys

• Cattle Boom
• New land Railroads hungry people Boom
• Texas Longhorn
• A new breed of cattle that was tough enough to
  withstand the long drives
• Long drives
• Getting the cattle from the ranch to the railhead
• Railhead
• Town along a railroad

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Cowboys
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Cowboys

• One of the toughest jobs in american history
• Cattle sheep
• Diversity
• A large portion of real cowboys were Black and
  hispanic (Vaqueros)
• While hispanics were still considered 2nd class
  cowboys, black cowboys worked, lived, and were
  paid the same as whites.

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Cowboys

• Nat love a.ka. Deadwood dick

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Cowboys

• Open range system
• Big companies, ranchers took advantage of free
  land to make big
• Former Native American land was converted into
  public grazing land for cattle and sheep

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Cowboys

• The end of the cattle boom
• Overgrazing on the open Range destroyed the
  land
• Barbed wire cut off access to open land and water
• Too much beef Beef prices drop

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Miners

• Comstock Lode
• Silver mine in Nevada
• 500 Million

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Miners

• Sewards folly
• In 1867, miners were pushing north beyond u.s.
  borders
• To avoid a territorial dispute with America,
  Russia sold Alaska to the u.s. in 1867
• Seward U.S. secretary of state
• Follymistake

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Miners

• Sewards folly
• 1867
• About 30 years later, in 1896, gold was
  discovered
• Klondike gold rush Gold rush in alaska that
  established settlement in the new state

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Miners

• Mining life
• Frame shantiestents of canvasof potato
  sackswith empty whiskey barrels for chimneyt
  smoky hovels of mud and stone coyote holes in
  the mountainside forcibly seized by men.
• furious race for wealth, in which men lost
  their identity almostand lived a fearfully
  excited life, forgetting home and kindred
• We do not live, we only stay We are too poor to
  get away

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Miners

• Mining life
• Diversity
• Various groups (chinese, irish, mexican, german,
  chilean, etc.) occasionally fought, but as mining
  camps turned into mining towns, stability
  followed.
• More was made starting Businesses in mining
  towns than was made actually mining

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Miners

• Big Business takes over
• Mining companies had the to own heavy mining
  equipment
• Companies soon took over the business, replacing
  lone miners with company employees.
• Labor Unions-arose to stop mistreatment of miners
  by their employers
• Big mining eventually destroyed land through
• Leveling of mountains
• Flooding
• deforestation

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Review

• What delicious animal became popular during the
  cattle boom because of its toughness?
• Whats a railhead?
• How did cowboys provide an early example of
  interracial cooperation?
• What is the open range system? How might it be
  considered hypocritical?
• What Nevada silver mine yielded over 500 mil?
• Howd we get Alaska?
• One negative effect of the mining industry

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