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What do you see? Speculate on what might be going on in these pictures.

1. What do you see? Speculate on what might be going on in these pictures. 2. Klondike Gold Rush. 1896: gold discovered in Yukon Territory in Canada Early stakeholders became wealthy Rumors of gold spread to U.S. through Seattle, but took almost a year to spread (1897)-why?. 3 routes.

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What do you see? Speculate on what might be going on in these pictures.

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  1. 1 What do you see? Speculate on what might be going on in these pictures. 2

  2. Klondike Gold Rush • 1896: gold discovered in Yukon Territory in Canada • Early stakeholders became wealthy • Rumors of gold spread to U.S. through Seattle, but took almost a year to spread (1897)-why?

  3. 3 routes All-Canadian Route: most difficult • What problems do you think “stampeders” faced? • 100,000 set off for Yukon; only 30,000 completed the trip • What happened to the rest? All-Water Route: easiest, but most expensive Skagway Route: most common, steep and hazardous

  4. What problems do you think “stampeders” faced, and what happened to most? • Knew little about where they were going • Had to buy expensive equipment and supplies • Dangerous journey • Hard to retrieve gold-had to dig through 10+ feet of permafrost • Most didn’t find gold and left empty-handed • Merchants made the most money

  5. Settling the West-Mining and the Cattle Boom

  6. How is this map different from today’s map? • Why is there so much gold/silver in this part of the country? • What happened to many of these mining towns? • How did the mining boom affect the West? The nation as a whole?

  7. Silver City, Idaho

  8. Why did these trails originate in Texas? • Why is Texas a good place to raise cattle? • What do you know about cattle drives? • Where do these cattle trails end? Why? • What do you think it was it like in these “cow towns”?

  9. Dodge City, Kansas, 1874 "Kansas has but one Dodge City, with a broad expanse of territory sufficiently vast for an empire; we have only room for one Dodge City; Dodge, a synonym for all that is wild, reckless, and violent; Hell on the Plains." -- A Kansas Newspaper in the 1870's

  10. What brought an end to the open range and the cowboy way of life? • Eventually, the cattle drive itself became obsolete. What invention would make it unnecessary to load live cattle onto railcars to ship to slaughterhouses in the east?

  11. What was the first transcontinental railroad completed? • How did the railroads transform the nation?

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