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1) The King Ranch was formed in 1853 by Captain Richard King and his wife Henrietta Maria King on land in South Texas. 2) Over time, through acquisitions and breeding programs, the King Ranch grew to over 800,000 acres and became a leader in cattle ranching, farming, oil and gas, and other industries. 3) Today, the King Ranch continues to operate successful businesses in cattle, horses, farming, oil and gas, hunting and others, making it one of the largest and most diverse family-owned ranches in the United States.

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- Joseph McCoy established the town of Abilene, Kansas as a shipping point for cattle driven from Texas to be transported east by rail. This was in response to the growing demand for beef in the east. By creating a central location to transport cattle by rail, McCoy solved the problem of how to efficiently ship cattle east, opening up the cattle industry and significantly increasing ranchers' profits. His actions are largely credited with launching the cattle industry and the economic development of the American West.

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The document summarizes the settlement of the American West by various groups including miners, ranchers, farmers, and Native Americans. It describes how miners engaged in placer and quartz mining for gold and other minerals. It also discusses the rise of cattle ranching and the establishment of the cattle drive system. Farming expanded through the use of new technologies and wheat became a major crop on the Great Plains. Native Americans resisted western expansion and fought settlers and the US military in various conflicts like the Sand Creek Massacre and Battle of Little Bighorn. Overall it provides a broad overview of the major economic and demographic developments in settling the American West.

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The document summarizes the settlement of the American West in the late 1800s. It describes how the Transcontinental Railroad was built between 1865-1869 to link the eastern and western United States, making travel west quicker. The railroad stimulated western expansion by enabling settlers, farmers, and ranchers to access eastern markets. It also discusses how settlers moved west for reasons like seeking land, gold, and religion. Life for early settlers and railroad workers was difficult with dangers from weather, injuries, and lack of resources. The document also summarizes the importance of the buffalo to Plains Indians and how their decline impacted Native American cultures and livelihoods.

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The American West from 1840-1895 saw the movement of white settlers westward and the decline of Native American tribes. The Plains had an extreme climate that made farming difficult with little rain and resources. Plains Indians like the Sioux lived nomadic lifestyles centered around buffalo hunting. Early pioneers faced many hardships on wagon trains west while Mormons fled religious persecution and established Salt Lake City. The Gold Rush of 1849 drew many prospectors but little gold was found. Ranching and cattle drives dominated the late 1800s until the development of barbed wire and railroads. Conflicts arose as groups competed for land, culminating in the Wounded Knee massacre of 1890 that largely ended Native American resistance.

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Miners and ranchers helped build the American West in the late 19th century. Miners flocked to locations where gold and silver were discovered, creating boomtowns like Virginia City, Nevada and Colorado mining towns. Ranchers drove cattle on long trails from Texas to railroads in Kansas, establishing the cowboy culture and cattle drives along trails like the Chisholm Trail. The invention of barbed wire by Joseph Glidden ended the open range by allowing farmers to fence off their land, changing the cattle industry.

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The document discusses the reasons for and impacts of western expansion and settlement of the Great Plains in the United States during the late 19th century. It describes how the Homestead Acts of 1862 and later acts aimed to encourage migration to the Plains by offering settlers free land if they lived on and improved it for a period of years. The railroad companies also promoted settlement to increase passenger and freight traffic on their newly built transcontinental lines across the Plains. As a result of these policies and promotions, over 2.5 million acres were claimed and millions of settlers moved West, transforming the Plains.

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Life on plantations was extremely difficult for slaves. They faced constant supervision and threat of punishment from overseers while doing grueling agricultural work from dawn until dusk with little rest. Plantations operated like self-sustaining villages isolated from the outside world. While slaves faced unending toil in the fields, women and children were often exploited as domestic servants and were vulnerable to starvation, whipping, and rape. Music and religion provided sources of strength and resistance to the domination attempted by slave owners.

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The years from 1865-1895 saw many important developments in the United States, including the Bessemer process which made steel production more efficient, the rise of social Darwinism and its influence on business, and the establishment of the Buffalo Soldiers regiment in 1866. Key events also included the Homestead Act which offered free land, the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, and the massacre of Cheyenne at Sand Creek in 1864. Inventors and businessmen like Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller also rose to prominence during this period, helping to industrialize the nation.

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The "Beef Bonanza" was a period in the late 1860s when large-scale cattle drives moved millions of cattle from Texas to railheads in Kansas. This was made possible by trails like the Goodnight-Loving trail and the establishment of cow towns like Abilene, Kansas near the railheads. Challenges included shortages of water and grasslands for the cattle along the trails and conflicts with farmers and Native Americans. Key figures in the development of the cattle industry during this period included Charles Goodnight, Oliver Loving, Joseph McCoy, and John Illiff.

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The document provides information on several Native American tribes that historically inhabited different regions of Texas, including the Kiowa, Caddo, Coahuiltecan, and Comanche tribes. It describes the location, food sources, economic activities, housing, clothing, and forms of government for each tribe. Additional details are given on three tribes still present in Texas today: the Alabama-Coushatta, Kickapoo, and Tigua tribes, including where they are located, their traditional clothing, main crops grown, protein sources, and religious/cultural practices.

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The document summarizes the rise and fall of cattle ranching on the open range in the American West. It discusses how cattle ranching began in Texas with longhorn cattle and expanded onto the open plains, using cattle trails and driven by cowboys on horseback. However, by the late 1880s, overgrazing of the land combined with severe weather and the introduction of barbed wire fencing led to the end of open range cattle ranching.

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