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Frontier West Ss
Term | Definition |
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Frontier | unsettled or sparsely settled area of the country occupied mostly by Native Americans |
Great Plains | the area from the Missouri river to the rocky mountains |
Comstock Lode | location of a mine of valuable minerals next to Virginia City, Nevada |
Boomtown | a town that has sudden burst of economic or population growth |
Ghost Town | a once thriving community in which the population has left |
vigilantes | people that took the law into their own hands due to lack of law enforcement |
exodusters | freed slaves that fled the south after reconstruction and settled in the west |