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The Last Frontier

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Year the United States Census Bureau announced that the American frontier had dis appeared 1890
Where Sooners raced to stake out new homesteads Oklahoma
Congressional Act which gave each head of an Indian family 160 acres of land for giving up their tribal loyality Dawes Act
Government lands where Indians were moved to Reservations
United States commander at the Battle of the Little Big Horn Colonel George M. Custer
Where the first transcontinental railroad was completed Promontary Point, Utah
Where cowboys showed off their skills rodeos
Three weapons carried by many American frontiersmen Bowie knives, Winchester rifles, Colt revolvers
Gave 180 acres of government land to settlers who promised to live on the land for five years Homestead Act
Two regions of the United States which made up the Last Frontier Rocky Mountains and Great Plains
Traveling preachers who conducted sermons, marriages and other services circuit riders
Outlaws who robbed stagecoaches, banks, and trains Desperadoes
Abandoned mining towns ghost towns
citizens who took the law into their own hands; may have helped to keep order and law on the frontier Vigilantes
The gathering of cattle to drive them to market Round Up
Cattlemen hated these beacuse they ate the grass close to the ground sheep
Unfenced territory where cattle could eat freely Open range
The driving of cattle to railroad centers Long drive
How western cattle were transported to the East Railroad
Homes on the Great Plains was made of this substance because there was a shortage of wood Sod
Centers for shipping cattle back east Cow towns
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