Reading?Notes? Monday, January 03, 2011 7:50 PM AH 487 - 505 Chapter 16: The American West The Great Plains GP seen as Great American Desert The Sioux Tribe was nomadic and saw nature as sacred In 1834, Congress formally designated GP as permanent Indian country Transcontinental Railroad tracks met in Promontory, Utah Commercial Men saw the Great Plains as potential cow grazing country, but for this to occur the buffalo had to go In the 1870s, railroads lowered transportation costs and eastern tanneries learned how to cure the hides, so buffalo skin demands skyrocketed This caused buffalo population to decrease and would starve the Indians into submission
1800s and early 1900s
Reading?Notes? Monday, January 03, 2011 7:50 PM AH 487 - 505 Chapter 16: The American West The Great Plains GP seen as Great American Desert The Sioux Tribe was nomadic and saw nature as sacred In 1834, Congress formally designated GP as permanent Indian country Transcontinental Railroad tracks met in Promontory, Utah Commercial Men saw the Great Plains as potential cow grazing country, but for this to occur the buffalo had to go In the 1870s, railroads lowered transportation costs and eastern tanneries learned how to cure the hides, so buffalo skin demands skyrocketed This caused buffalo population to decrease and would starve the Indians into submission
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