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Plains Indians
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-largest indian group
-nomadic
-dependent on bison
-society well made
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William E. "Bufflo Bill" Cody
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Famous Scout and Indian Fighter
-killed 43, 000 buffalo to feed railroad workers
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Fort Larmie Treaty
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Indians agreed to move to reservations in prestant-day South Dakota in return for money and provisions.
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Edmund-Tucker Act
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Dissolved Chuch coroporation (Mormon) , limited its assets to $50,000, aboished women's rights and put its properties and funds into receivership.
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White Caps
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Mexican-American ranchers organized themselves into a vilgiante group called Las Gorras Blancas or....
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Comestock Lode
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Territory along Carson's River in Nevade discovered by Henery Comestock for mining.
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Cattle Drives
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Ranchers who rasied cattle for money.
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Nat Love
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Big Time cattle driver. Known for being a party animal and first colored man to do so well. Became Deadeood Dick.
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Curtis Act
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Abolished goverments and took away Indian territory.
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Wild West Show
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Edmard Judson wrote in BuffloBill: King or the Border Men. He then made shows off this dime-novel hero. They pretend to have fights with indians and this became "cowboys"
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Owen Wister
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Wrote the Virginian Showed a heroic cowboy and also was first to show what real "cowboys" did
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John Wesley Powell
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Pushed for water and irragation in the West. Mayor
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Yellowstone National Park
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General Henry D. Washburn visted the park and pushed Congress to save it.
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George Perkins Marsh
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Wrote Man and Nature push for society to understand nature
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John Muir
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Leader of Sierra Club to encourage the enjoyment of nature.
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