WESTERN EXPANSION PLAN

INDIANS USE FOR BUFFALO

• Utensils
• Clothing and blankets
• Food
• Homes/ tepee
• Religious symbols and tools

CATTLE TRAILS

• Chisholm went from rio grande to the Kansas Pacific railway
• Western trail began in Bandera, parallel to the Chisholm trail.b
• Goodnight-Loving trail began in Young county in Texas.
• Sedalia and Baxter trail began in San Antonio and ended in Kansas City
• All the trails were used for transporting a new breed(Texas longhorn) $25-$125

RAILROADS

• Could take people around the US in a shorter amount of time
• Encouraged people to settle the west
• Resources and trading product got to buyers
• Central pacific goes from Omaha to Sacramento
• Union Pacific started in Sacramento ended and meet in promontory summit

MINING

• Gold was discovered January 24, 1848 by James Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma.
• Gold was valued from $12.00 to $35.00 an ounce.
• Types of mining included panning, sluicing, hydraulicking, hardrock or quartz mining, and dredging.
• California was admitted as the 31st state of the United States in 1850 during the gold rush.

FARMING

• Samuel Colt six shooter (1835) subdues Plains Indians and their horse culture.
• John Deere steel plow (1846) breaks up sod and thick root masses of tall grass prairies, replaces iron plow
• Railroads (1866) create market system for cattle and bring homesteaders.
• Barbed wire allows ranchers and farmers to fence their property, separate pastures, isolate water supplies
• Windmill helps to solve water problem by pumping, storing water,used by railroads to pump water for engine

VAQUEROS

• The cowboy’s clothes, food, and vocabulary heavily influenced by Mexican vaquero, the first to wear spurs
• Spurs attached with straps to his bare feet and used to control his horse.
• His chaparreras, or leather overalls, became known as chaps. He ate charqui, or “jerky”—dried strips of meat
• The Spanish bronco caballo, or “rough horse” that ran wild, became known as a bronco or bronc.
• The strays, or mesteños, the same mustangs the American cowboy tamed and prized.