The Western Frontier

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The Western Frontier

• A. Settlers
• B. The Mining Frontier
• C. The Indian Wars
• D. Cowboys
• E. Sodbusters
• F. Western Culture
• G. The Closing of the Frontier (1890)

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Westward Expansion
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Settlers of the West
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EXODUSTERS
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The Mining Frontier
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Some Famous Mines

• Started with Sutters Mill- California 1849

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Some Famous Mines

• Started with Sutters Mill- California 1849
• Central City Colorado- 1859

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Some Famous Mines

• Started with Sutters Mill- California 1849
• Central City Colorado- 1859
• Comstock Lode- Va. City, Nev.- 1859

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Some Famous Mines

• Started with Sutters Mill- California 1849
• Central City Colorado- 1859
• Comstock Lode- Va. City, Nev.- 1859
• Deadwood, S.D.- 1875

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Some Famous Mines

• Started with Sutters Mill- California 1849
• Central City Colorado- 1859
• Comstock Lode- Va. City, Nev.- 1859
• Deadwood, S.D.- 1875
• Cripple Creek, Colorado- 1891

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Native Americans
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Battle of the Little Big Horn-1874
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General G.A. Custer
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Sioux Chief Sitting Bull
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Nez Perce Chief Joseph
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Ghost Dance Uprising

• Started with the Ghost Dance- religious ceremony
• Participants were supposed to be immune to white
  mens bullets
• Sitting Bull killed by Tribal Police
• 300 men, women, and children killed at the Battle
  of Wounded Knee, S.D.- 1890

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Cowboys
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Wild West Cattle Round-up
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Early Farmers on the Western Frontier
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Western Culture

• The Code of the West- A desire to stand up and
  fight when threatened or wronged

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Western Culture

• The Code of the West- A desire to stand up and
  fight when threatened or wronged
• Bodie, California- 44 shootouts in six years

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Wild West Outlaws

• Man- Eater McGowan
• John Wesley Hardin
• Billy the Kid

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The Closing of the Frontier

• 1890- No frontier left in the country

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The Closing of the Frontier

• 1890- No frontier left in the country
• 1893- Frederick Jackson Turner The Frontier
  Thesis

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The Closing of the Frontier

• 1890- No frontier left in the country
• 1893- Frederick Jackson Turner The Frontier
  Thesis
• The Frontier had been a safety valve and had
  helped shape American National Character

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The Closing of the Frontier

• 1890- No frontier left in the country
• 1893- Frederick Jackson Turner The Frontier
  Thesis
• The Frontier had been a safety valve and had
  helped shape American National Character
• Fear that closed frontier would cause problems