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Western Regionalism

Come, all ye sons of labor Who wish to change your lot, Who’ve spunk enough to travel Beyond your native cot; Come, leave the crowded cities Where work is overdone, And come with us to settle In western Kansas towns. —From “Immigration Song”. Western Regionalism.

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Western Regionalism

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  1. Come, all ye sons of labor Who wish to change your lot, Who’ve spunk enough to travel Beyond your native cot; Come, leave the crowded cities Where work is overdone, And come with us to settle In western Kansas towns. —From “Immigration Song” Western Regionalism The Transformation of the American West

  2. Culture Clash and the End of Native Resistance Agricultural Revolution on the Farming Frontier The Transformation of the American West Big Business Gobbles the Mining Frontier Rise and Fall of the Cattle Industry

  3. The Expansion of the West

  4. Westward Expansion

  5. Big Business Gobbles the West Virginia City, Nevada • The mining frontier played a vital role in subduing the continent—It attracted population and wealth—Only corporations could afford the expensive ore-breaking machinery.

  6. The Farming Frontier

  7. U.S. Relationship with Natives Following the Civil War Doolittle Commission 1867 Peace Commission 1867 From 1868 to about 1890, almost incessant warfare raged in various parts of the West between native peoples and whites. BIA 1869

  8. The Dawes Act & Wounded Knee.

  9. Chief Joseph and the Nez Perces “Tell General Howard that I know his heart. What he told me before I have in my heart. I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who now say yes or no. It is cold, and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people—some of them have run away to the hills and have no blankets and no food. No one knows where they are—perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs, my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever against the white man.” ~Chief Joseph, 1877

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