The Last West

Mining Frontier

Cattleman's Frontier
      -Range Cattle Industry
      -Sedalia Trail
      -Chisolm Trail
      -Western Trail
           -"Cattle Barons"

Plains Indians
      -Reservations
      -Bison  (Buffalo)
      -Dawes Act  (1887)

Farmer's Frontier
      -Homestead Act  (1862)
      -Corn-Hog Cycle
      -Wheat
          -Machinery
      -Railroads
      -Credit  
 

The New South

Redeemers
      -Conservatives
      -Bourbon Democrats

Henry Grady

Industry
      -Textiles  (Cotton)
      -Iron and Steel
      -Tobacco
      -Timber

Agriculture
      -Crop Lien System

Republican Party

Populist Party

Disfranchisement

Segregation
      -Civil Rights Act of 1875
           -Public Accommodations
      -Jim Crow laws

Lynching  

    Mining Frontier
      & Cattle Trails
 
   Longhorn Cattle

       
  Indian Reservations                               Indian Buffalo Use

      
         Rainfall                        Crops & tenancy, 1890

 
Plantation to Sharecropping

 
        Tenancy, 1880

 
        Tenancy, 1900