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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