American West

Early Settlement 1835-1862

1. Plains Indians Background

2. Buffalo and Horses

3. US Government Attitudes

4. Why did people migrate?

5. Donner Party

6. Mormon Migration

7. Fort Laramie Treaty 1851

8. Early Law and Order

Development of the Plains 1862-1876

9. Homestead Act

10. Pacific Railroad Act

11. Law and Order

12. Cattle Industry and Ranching

13. Cowboys

14. Impacts on Plains Indians

15. Government Policies

16. Little Crow's War

17. Sand Creek Massacre

18. Red Cloud's War

Conflict and Conquest 1876-1895

19. Cattle Industry

20. Exoduster

21. Oklahoma Land Rush

22. Billy the Kid

23. Wyatt Earp and the OK Corral

24. Johnson County War

25. Battle of Little Big Horn

26. Wounded Knee Massacre

27. Government Attitudes 1876-1895

28. Extermination of the Buffalo/Reservations