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Ranchers

- The spanish cattlemen were called Vaqueros

-Once the cattle was fattened they drove them to a local railroad site

- Despite the risks a successful cattle run was very profitable to everyone

-The funding for the cattle industry came largely from British sources

-Sheep gazing was also very popular

No rancher has the right to sell, or own, what God meant to be free. The Range must always remain open.- BBQ Bill Shankelbean , 1855

Miners

Farmers

Before Ranchers did it to maintain food on the table and have some money to buy supplies. now they are doing it mainly for their wealth and to gain as much of it as possible.

- Very few single men tried to operate a farm

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-49ers went to California in search of gold

-Farmers clearly saw that farming was hard work and needed numerous children

-Miners had to face rough conditions

- During the early years of settlement women worked in the field also, but left the field to attend the house

-Supplies were expensive and food was poor

- They would have to farm enough food to make it through the winter

-The gold rush radically changed the California economy and brought in an array of professionals

-If Farmers would grow enough crops they could sell them for money

“In a cavern, in a canyon, Excavating for a mine Dwelt a miner, Forty-niner, And his daughter, Clementine”

-Percy Montorose

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) Thirty-fourth President of the USA.

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Life of a miner was hard, the immigrants that became miners had to adapt to their new environment and learn how to live. Some became wealthy and some stayed poor.

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Farmers have changed significantly. They have started to grow cash crops mainly for their gain. They obtained much land from the homestead act

The Old West

The Populist

By: Miguel G.

-The populist party was based on the poor and white cotton farmers in the south

- There was hostility between populist and bankers

- They would sometimes come together with labor unions

- The terms "populist" and "populism" are commonly used for anti-elitist appeals in opposition to established interests and mainstream parties.

Native Americans

-A People's Party grew out of agrarian unrest in response to low agricultural prices in the South

- Native Americans made land treaties with the american colonists

“You are kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings. You are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despotism which enslaves you both. You are deceived and blinded that you may not see how this race antagonism perpetuates a monetary system which beggars both.”

Thomas E Watson

-The native americans were getting driven out of their land

The populist stuck with their idea of farmers needing help. There wasn't much change with them except they eventually dissolved in 1908

- There were savage clashes between american colonists and native americans

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- The black hills was taken from the Native Americans in the search for gold

"Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit"

- A Sioux war party ambushed and killed the army of Captain William J Fetter man

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As more and more settlers headed west, the Native Americans got fustrated and began fighting back. They were losing all thier land

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