Closing of the Frontier Notes

Pacific Railway Act

Homestead Act

Montgomery Ward

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show

Little Big Horn

 

  • Americans settled the West to take advantage of its natural resources.

  • The most likely way to get rich in the west was to farm.

  • The West as remembered today is more myth than reality.

 

Jonathan Rees
Associate Professor of History
Colorado State University - Pueblo
2200 Bonforte Boulevard
Pueblo, CO 81001
(719) 549-2541

E-Mail: Jonathan [dot] Rees [at] colostate-pueblo [dot] edu

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