The document summarizes key events and developments related to the settlement of the American West between 1870-1890, including the frontier thesis, slaughter of the buffalo, Indian reservation policy, the Battle of Little Bighorn, Dawes Severalty Act, Ghost Dance Movement, and Wounded Knee Massacre. It also mentions topics like mining, lumbering, irrigation laws, homestead acts, ranching, and innovations in agriculture that transformed the Western frontier during this period.

1. Chapter 17 The Development of the West

2. Frederick Jackson Turner frontier thesis

3. Buffalo Bill Cody

4. Indian subsistence cultures

5. Note: Slide on John Henry “Doc” has been moved to slide 29

6. Slaughter of the Buffalo Buffalo

7. Decline of Salmon

8. US Government’s reservation policy

9. Battle of Little Big Horn

10. George Manypenny & Helen Hunt Jackson “ George Manypenny” Image not available

11. Canada’s Indian Policy

12. Women’s National Indian Association

13. Indian Rights Association

14. Dawes Severalty Act

15. Government’s Indian School System

16. Ghost Dance Movement

17. Wovoka

18. Massacre at Wounded Knee

19. Clapp rider to the Indian Appropriations Bill

20. Note: Timber and Stone Act has been placed in before Mining Frontier

21. Timber and Stone Act Stone Timber

22. Mining Frontier

23. Mining and Lumber Communities

24. Women and Nonwhites in frontier society

25. Home mission statement

26. Conservation Movement

27. Omnibus Bill of 1889

28. Clanton Family and Johnny Ringo

29. Earp Brothers

30. John Henry “Doc” Holliday

31. Shoot-out at the OK Corral

33. Riparian rights versus prior appropriation

34. California Irrigation Legislation of 1887

35. Newlands Reclamation Act

36. Standard Time Zones

37. Westward migration, 1870-1890

38. Life on the Plains

39. Great Blizzard of 1888

40. Grasshopper Plagues

42. Mail-order houses & Rural Free Delivery

43. Mechanization of Agriculture

44. Morrill Land Grant Acts (zoom out for complete picture)

45. Hatch Act of 1887

46. Dry Farming

47. Luther Burbank

48. George Washington Carver

49. Ranching Frontier

50. Long Drive

51. Open Ranch Ranching

52. Barbed Wire