We continued the presentations over the same section The Bloody Battles Continue Red River War kiowa and comanche harassed for six years the US army responded workers found gold in the black hills

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We continued the presentations over the same section

1. The Bloody Battles Continue
   1. Red River War
      1. kiowa and comanche harassed for six years
      2. the US army responded
      3. workers found gold in the black hills 
   2.  Custer's last stand was originally called the battle of little big horn
   3. Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer
      1. 7th Cavalry 
   4. The Dawes Act in 1877
      1. Americanize the Indians 
   5.  In 1800 there were over 65 million bison
      1. in 1890 there were less than 1000
   6. Battle of Wounded Knee 
      1. rounded up 350 sioux
      2. Killed 300 indiands 
      3. basically quit the fighting
   7.  Cattle became a great business once they started living on the plans
      1. American settlers never managed large heads in an open area
         1.  They learned from the Mexicans
      2. Cowboys were influenced by the Vaquero
      3. first to use spurs and leather
      4. Before the civil war most rancher didn't go far from their homesteads
      5. during the gold rush some cattlemen took drives to sell the cattle 
   8. Cowboys are pictured differently now than they were
   9.  roundup was when they separated the different brands to figure out which to take
      1. the ratio of cowboys to cattle was 1:250 
   10. they had a cook that drove a chuckwagon
   11. and a wrangler to care fro the horses
   12.  Demand for Beef
       1. After the civil war the demand skyrocketed
       2. From sedalia, Texas ranchers could ship the cattle to chicago
       3. They had obstacles
       4. like farmers angry about trampled crops
   13. The cow town
       1. In a year they found an easier way to do get there
   14. The end of the open range
       1. the cattle frontier ended because of bad weather, overgrazing of land, and the invention of barbed wire
       2. dry summers and harsh winters also ruined herds
       3. most ranchers got smaller heards and fenced the land
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