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1 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.17 | 1 CHAPTER 17 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST, 1860–1900

2 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.17 | 2 Native Americans and the Trans-Mississippi West The Plains Indians The Assault on Nomadic Indian Life Custer’s Last Stand, 1876 “Saving” the Indians The Ghost Dance and the End of India Resistance on the Great Plains, 1890

3 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.17 | 3 Major Indian Battles in the West

4 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.17 | 4 Western Indian Reservations, 1890

5 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.17 | 5 Settling the West The First Transcontinental Railroad Settlers and the Railroad Homesteading on the Great Plains New Farms, New Markets Building a Society and Achieving Statehood The Spread of Mormonism

6 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.17 | 6 Transcontinental Railroads and Federal Land Grants, 1850–1900

7 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.17 | 7 The Settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1860–1890

8 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.17 | 8 Exploiting the Western Landscape The Mining Frontier Cowboys and the Cattle Frontier Cattle Towns and Prostitutes Bonanza Farms The Oklahoma Land Rush, 1889

9 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.17 | 9 The Mining and Cattle Frontiers, 1860–1890

10 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.17 | 10 The Oklahoma Land Rush,1889–1906

11 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.17 | 11 The West of Life and Legend The American Adam and the Dime-Novel Hero Revitalizing the Frontier Legend Beginning a National Parks Movement

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