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Furnishing Your College Dorm: What to Bring Across the Country

Discover essential items to bring to your unfurnished dorm across the country. Learn about American West history and the unique challenges faced by pioneers. Explore the legacy of the frontier movement, iconic figures, and the impact on the western landscape.

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Furnishing Your College Dorm: What to Bring Across the Country

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  1. You are moving to college across the country. Due to school cut-backs, your dorm room will not be furnished in any way. What are the items you will need to bring with you? Bell Ringer

  2. Closing the West Conquering America's Frontier

  3. What is the American Dream? To nineteenth century Americans, it was a plot of land to call your own, that – through hard work – would prosper and you could pass down to your children.

  4. The Westward Movement “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” • Americans continued to move westward in large numbers, but proved to have lots of difficulties • Independent • Tenacious • Uneducated • Emerging literature reflected these unique types of people such as James Fenimore Cooper's woodsy hero "Natty Bumppo" in the Leatherstocking Tales, or Herman Melville's whale-hunting "Captain Ahab."

  5. Shaping the Western Landscape • Although the land was to be used, Americans respected it and noticed its beauty. • George Catlin was an artist who painted western scenes and Native Americans. He was a first advocate of national parks; Yellowstone became the first national park in 1872. • Misuses of land • “land butchery” by tobacco farmers • Fur trappers taking a toll on the beaver population • Over-hunting of buffalo

  6. American West, American Football

  7. Home on the Range

  8. How they got there

  9. Oregon Trail

  10. ‘49ers Strike Gold!

  11. January 24, 1848 – Sutter’s Mill, Coloma, California

  12. Don’t work harder, Work SMARTER!

  13. When life hands you lemons, make lemonade! ...And then SELL IT!

  14. Pike’s Peak

  15. Comstock Lode

  16. Boom town to Ghost town

  17. Calico – A local California Ghost Town

  18. Towns of 5,000 people sprang up almost overnight

  19. OUTLAWS, LAWMEN, AND ENTERTAINERS

  20. Outlaws, Lawmen, and Entertainers

  21. Outlaws, Lawmen, and Entertainers

  22. Wild Bill Hickok

  23. Outlaws, Lawmen, and Entertainers “I’m your huckleberry”

  24. Wild West Medicine

  25. I Want To BE a Cowboy’s Sweetheart

  26. The American Buffalo

  27. The Buffalo’s Replacement

  28. Chisholm Trail – The “Long Drive”

  29. "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" The Pony Express

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