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**Chapter 13 study tools and notes**
__//Native Leaders//__ Black Kettle - leader of the Cheyenne who were massacred at Sand Creek Little Crow - chief who led the Dakota Sioux uprising in Minnesota Sitting Bull - Lakota Sioux chief killed at Wounded Knee Crazy Horse - Lakota Sioux religious leader and war chief who lured an army detachment into an ambush in Wyoming Chief Joseph - Nez Perce chief who surrendered after losing much of his band in a series of battles //__Army Leaders__// John Chivington - commander who attached the Cheyenne at Sand Creek William Fetterman - leader of army detachment wiped out by the Lakota Sioux in Wyoming George Custer - commander who battled the Lakota Sioux at Little Big h orn //__Other People__// Helen Hunt Jackson - writer who sparked discussion of better treatment for Native Americans with //A Century of Dishonor// Henry Comstock - prospector who saked a claim in Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada //__Important Places__// Denver - supply point for mining areas in the Rocky Mountains Sedalia - destination for the first cattle drive Abilene - destination for those using the Chisholm Trail Virginia City - boomtown near the Comstock Lode Leadville - got its name from lead deposits that contained large amounts of silver Pike's Peak - gold and silver area in the Colorado mountains - Leadville is in this area //__Other Stuff__// barbed wire - at first ranchers thought it would threaten their cattle by not being free to roam, but eventually made cowboys (on the open range) into ranch hands (on farms fenced in with the wire) long drive - journey across the Plains to bring cattle to railroad shipping centers longhorn - cattle that roamed on the grasslands of Texas that was a breed of cattle descending from Spanish cattle in Mexico range wars - occurred when farmers blocked cattle trails vigilance committees - self-appointed law enforcers frontier - closed with the rapid settlement of the West "dime novels" - cowboys' exaggerated tales of daring Indian Peace Commission - made a plan doomed for failure because the Native Americans were forced to sign the treaty Great Plains - large area in the Dakotas and western Nebraska and Kansas - dry, became the Wheat Belt after sodbusters used dry farming techniques placier mining - uses simple equipment like picks, shovels, and pans quartz mining - digging deep beneath the surface first elevator - the West's first 'rising room" was in a boomtown hotel in Nevada homestead - tract of public land available for settlement bonanza farms - around 50,000 acres, large wheat farms yeilding big profits to owners ghost dance - Native American ritual that celebrated a hoped-for day of reckoning Buffalo - main source of food for most Native American nations on the Great Plains Native American religion - based on a belief in the spiritual power of the natural world cattle drives - stock from many different owners made up the herds in teh cattle drives Prospectors - only a few actually became rich from the profits from the gold and silver mines they created

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