The Native Americans were living on a valuable asset called land, and the government was looking to expand their territoty to the west. However, the U.S. had to do something with the Native Americans, so they strated to create reservation in hope to avoid land wars between the Native Americans and the new settlers. Tribes were congregated on small reservations; each tribes had their own culture and this caused friction among each other. Not to mention, there was already conflicts going on with their government caregivers. Futhermore, there were church-run boarding schools, which took th

The new about finding gold rang out across the U.S. and people from all walks of life made a mad dash to the west to stake their claims. Mostly men lived in these camps and it was a rough place to live. They had inadequate shelter, food and it was often violent. Many of them died or they tried to make their stake and return home to the east as fast as they could. Hawhers had moved into the camps such as, saloonkeepers, ladies of the night, outlaws, and other indecorous characters, which is way the lynch law justice was away of life for the time being. After awhile, law and order came into play and mining became a corporate businenss, so the independent miner eitherstarted to work for the corporation or they moved on to something else. These small mining camps soon became flourishing towns.

When the civil war had ended, there was a shortage of cattle, and there were millions of Texas Longhorns roaming free in the west. Many people saw this as a great opportunity to make big money. Cowboys set out too round-up the cattle. Then they would drive them to the Missouri-Pacific railroad and send the cattle east. On the cattle drives there were some difficulties due to cattle rustlers waiting to attack and having to go around farmlands. Cowtowns started popping up across the west as far as Montana as the railroad expanded. The first cowtown was in Kansas and the man who started it was J. McCory. He bought 250 acres and then he built a stockyard, barn, office building, hotel, and bank. Things were looking up for the cattle industry, but thhey still had cattle that were died or sick by the time they reach the East Coast. To fix the problem the railroad came up with the refrigerated car, so the cattlemen could slaughter the cattle before shipping, and ship the beef to the East Coast without spoilage. The cattle were kept on open

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