• Transcontinental Railroad
  • Pacific Railway Act
  • Chinese railroad workers
  • Promontory, Utah
• Mining "boomtowns"
  • Excerpt from Mark Twain's "Roughing It"
  • Virginia City, NV
  • Pikes Peak, CO
  • Deadwood (Black Hills), SD
• Plains Indians
  • Great Plains
  • Importance of the buffalo
  • Cheyenne and Arapaho>
    • Sand Creek Massacre
  • Lakota Sioux>
    • Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
    • Battle of Little Bighorn
    • Wounded Knee
  • Nez Perce
• The Cattle Kingdom
  • Cowboys
  • Cattle Trails and Cowtowns
  • End of the Cattle Kingdom
• Homesteading
  • Homestead Act
  • Innovations
  • Life on the Homestead
• Overall Impact

Massacre at Sand Creek, 1864