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Settlements made over night following the news of gold or silver. mainly menmainly saloons beer halls and gambling houses
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Boomtowns 1850s to 1890s
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Gold discovered in colorado. 50,000 came in to colorado. quick
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Pike's Peak 1859
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Gold and silver discovered in Nevada on Mount davidson (in the Virginia Range) Henry TP- first laid clam on the land. boomtown Virginia City 300 mill of gold and silver in the first 20 years slowed in 1874 and ended in 1898
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Comstock lode 1859
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Southwestern dakota territory- gold found. short, area turned aricultural
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Black Hills 1874
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Humorous stories about the west, used dialect the Luck of Roaring Camp
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Bret Harte 1860s- 1902
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Master of satire dialects and detailed descriptions. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Amazing Jumping Frog of Calaverus County. wester stories. Roughing it- mining camp in Virginia City, Nevada
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Mark Twain 1870s- 1910
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Stories showed the grim conditions of the American farm life- main travelled roads and other main travelled roads. Son of the MIddle Board and Daughter os the Middle Border - frustrations of farm life. Supported the indians
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Hamlin Garland 1880s- 1940
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The virginian- romanticized the cowboy
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Owen wister- early 1900s
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Painter and sculptor- romanticized the old west. Bronco Buster and comin Through the Rye
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Fredric Remington 1861- 1909
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