Opening the west

OPENING THE WEST
forty-niner

Pikes Peak

Comstock Lode

Henry Comstock

boomtown

vigilante

subsidies

transcontinental

Union Pacific Company

Central Pacific Company

Transcontinental Railroad

Promontory Summit

Leland Stanford

time zones

longhorn

open range

Long Drive
Missouri Pacific Railroad

Chisholm Trail

vaqueros

Cattle Kingdom

Homestead Act

homestead

Exodusters

sodbusters

dry farming

Indian Peace Commission

reservation

Indian Territory & Dakota Territory

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Fetterman Massacre, Battle of Little Big Horn, Apache Wars & Wounded Knee

Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Chief Black Kettle, Sitting Bull & Geronimo

Colonel John Chivington & Lieutenant Colonel George Custer

Dawes Act

Ghost dance

National Grange

cooperatives

Farmers’ Alliance

Populist Party

populism

free silver

Williams Jennings Bryan

William McKinley