Name_______________________Date_____           ah 7.2/7.3 class notes

Ranching, Mining, Farming

Cattle Kingdom

Spanish Roots

Texas Mavericks

Long Drive/Chisum Trail/Cowboys

Overgrazing/Blizzards/Rustlers/Homesteaders

Mining Frontier: Colorado, 1858

Black Hills

Comstock Lode

Immigrants/Ghost Towns/Vigilance Committees

Wild West/Dime Novels/vaudeville/ “Westerns”

Farming, Homestead Act

Glidden, Technology, Railroads

Problems: 98th Meridian climate, commodities market, sod houses, isolation, (“My Antonia”)



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