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1. Changes in farming, the cattle industry and settlement
1. Changes in farming, the cattle industry and settlement
Changes in farming: the impact of new technology and new farming methods.
Changes in the cattle industry, including the impact of the winter of 1886–87. The significance of changes in the nature of ranching: the end of the open range.
Continued growth of settlement: the Exoduster movement and Kansas (1879), the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1893.
2. Conflict and tension
2. Conflict and tension
Extent of solutions to problems of law and order: sheriffs and marshals. The significance of Billy the Kid, OK Corral (1881), Wyatt Earp.
The range wars, including the Johnson County War of 1892.
Conflict with the Plains Indians: the Battle of the Little Big Horn, 1876 and its impact; the Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890.
3. The Plains Indians: the destruction of their way of life
3. The Plains Indians: the destruction of their way of life
The hunting and extermination of the buffalo.
The Plains Indians’ life on the reservations.
The significance of changing government attitudes to the Plains Indians, including the Dawes Act 1887 and the closure of the Indian Frontier.
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