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27 A New West

1. How were buffalo affected in three different ways by Americans in the eastern United States?
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2. How did the West change due to a boom in valuable minerals? Can you think of a similar
boom that occurred during the colonial period, elsewhere in the western hemisphere?
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3. What did Samuel Clemens do in the West? What did he eventually write under another
name?
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4. What factors caused the Indian population to drop in the late nineteenth century? Have you
seen earlier examples of these same problems?
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5. What was the American name of the man Indians called “Long Hair”? Why is he remembered
today?
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6. As the buffalo nearly died out, what were they replaced by? How did this replacement come
about?
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7. What is the English word for vaquero? What tools did the vaquero use in his line of work?
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8. Why was barbed wire important on the Great Plains? Who appreciated it? Who disliked it?
Why?
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9. The chapter begins by saying that “in the lands beyond the Mississippi, another new world
came into being.” (page 198) Why does it say another new world? Make a list of the ways in
which the West had become a new world.
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10. How are the vast spaces of the West connected to the crowded world of cities? How did the
cities and the western settlements depend on each other?
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