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CHAPTER 17

THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST, 1860–1900

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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

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Major Indian Battlesin the West

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Western Indian Reservations, 1890

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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

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Transcontinental Railroads and Federal Land Grants, 1850–1900

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The Settlement ofthe Trans-Mississippi West, 1860–1890

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Exploiting the Western Landscape

• The Mining Frontier • Cowboys and the Cattle Frontier • Cattle Towns and Prostitutes• Bonanza Farms • The Oklahoma Land Rush, 1889

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The Mining andCattle Frontiers, 1860–1890

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The Oklahoma Land Rush,1889–1906

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The West of Life and Legend

• The American Adam and the Dime-Novel Hero• Revitalizing the Frontier Legend • Beginning a National Parks Movement