A | B |
Wyatt Earp | lawman - Dodge City and Tombstone |
Wild Bill Hickok | gunfighter - lawman - killed in Deadwood, S.D. |
Buffalo Bill | Wild West Show |
Calamity Jane | woman bull whacker |
Promitory Point, UT | connecting point for the U.P and C.P RR of the Transcontinental RR |
Homesteader | 160 acres - $10 - citizen of U.S. |
Glidden | inventor of barbed wire |
Wovoka | invented the Ghost Dance |
Jesse James | Bank - Train Robber from Missouri |
McCormick Reaper | harvested crops |
Nat Love | African Amrican cowboy |
Dodge City | largest cow market in the world |
Chisholm Trail | route taken to get cattle from Texas to Abiline, KS |
Standing Bear | Ponca Indian Chief |
Gen. Custer | leader of the calvary who attacked the Sioux at Little Bighorn in Montana |
Buffalo Soldiers | black army men |
Dawes Act | 160 acres - Indians who gave up tribal ways |
Cattle Towns | Abilene KS, Dodge City KS and Kansas City |
Omaha | starting point of the Union Pacific Railroad |
Chief Joseph | leader of the Nez Perce who said "I will fight no more forever" |
Chinese | workers that successfully blasted through the Sierra Nevada mountains for the Central Pacific Railroad |
Nevada, California, Colorado, Black Hills | mining territories in the 1800's |
Daniel Freeman | first person to claim land under the Homestead Act |