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CHAPTER 17

THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST, 1860–1900. CHAPTER 17. Native Americans and the Trans-Mississippi West. The Plains Indians The Assault on Nomadic Indian Life Custer’s Last Stand, 1876 “Saving” the Indians The Ghost Dance and the End of India

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CHAPTER 17

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  1. THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST, 1860–1900 CHAPTER 17

  2. Native Americans andthe Trans-Mississippi West • The Plains Indians • The Assault on Nomadic Indian Life • Custer’s Last Stand, 1876 • “Saving” the Indians • The Ghost Dance and the End of India • Resistance on the Great Plains, 1890

  3. Major Indian Battlesin the West

  4. Western Indian Reservations, 1890

  5. Settling the West • The First Transcontinental Railroad • Settlers and the Railroad • Homesteading on the Great Plains • New Farms, New Markets • Building a Society and Achieving Statehood • The Spread of Mormonism

  6. Transcontinental Railroads and Federal Land Grants, 1850–1900

  7. The Settlement ofthe Trans-Mississippi West, 1860–1890

  8. Exploiting the Western Landscape • The Mining Frontier • Cowboys and the Cattle Frontier • Cattle Towns and Prostitutes • Bonanza Farms • The Oklahoma Land Rush, 1889

  9. The Mining andCattle Frontiers, 1860–1890

  10. The Oklahoma Land Rush,1889–1906

  11. The West of Life and Legend • The American Adam and the Dime-Novel Hero • Revitalizing the Frontier Legend • Beginning a National Parks Movement

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