Post-Civil War
Economic Development

The Last West

Mining Frontier

Cattleman’s Frontier
      -Range Cattle Industry
           -Cattle Barons
          -Edward Everett Dale

Farmer’s Frontier
          -Homestead Act (1862)
         -Railroad Land Grants

Farm Mortgages

Corn-Hog Cycle

Long Haul-Short Haul Differential
      -0.64 ˘ in Michigan
           -Lake Shore and Michigan Southern RR
    -3.84 ˘ in Nebraska (west of Omaha)
             -Burlington Northern
     -4.07 ˘ in Texas
           -Galveston, Houston, and Henderson RR

The New South

GTT

Bourbon Democrats
     -Conservatives
     -Redeemers

New South Creed

Planters
         -Sharecroppers and Tenants

Merchants

William Faulkner, The Hamlet

Crop Lien System
     Lawrence Goodwyn, The Populist Moment

Open Range

 Minerals & Resources
Minerals and Resources


Mining and Cattleman's Frontier

Longhorn
        Longhorn

 

 

 

Railroad Land Grants
 Railroad Land Grants

Rainfall and Farming
 Rainfall and Farming

Homesteading in Arizona, 1930

Crops, 1890
        Crops, 1890


Plantation to Sharecropping

Sharecropping
      Sharecropping