Tranformation of the American West
  • 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
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