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| Union Civil War hero and commanding general of the United States Army during much of the Plains Indian Wars. |
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| 1864 Colorado militia attack on a band of Cheyenne Indians led by Black Kettle. |
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| 1876 Native American victory over American 7th Cavalry troops commanded by Colonel George Armstrong Custer. |
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| Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 |
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| Legislation which allowed the government to divide communally controlled Native American tribal lands and provided allotments to individual families |
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| Illinois cattle shipper who organized the first cattle drives from Texas to Abilene, Kansas. |
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| Route over which cattle were driven from Texas, through Indian Territory, to Abilene, Kansas. |
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| Site of an 1890 massacre of two hundred Sioux Indians by troops trying to suppress the Ghost Dance religion. |
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| Site where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads met on May 10, 1869 to complete the first transcontinental rail line across the United States. |
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| 1870s migration of African Americans from the post-Reconstruction South to the Great Plains. |
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| Service of the federal government, begun in 1896, which brought letters, newspapers, magazines and advertisements to farm families throughout the United States. |
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| Sioux chief who led the attack on Custer’s troops on the Little Big Horn River. |
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| Belief that industrialization and modernization would bring prosperity. |
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| System imposed through law and custom, of separating people by race. |
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| Legal claim against property used to obtain a loan. |
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| Supreme Court decision that upheld the doctrine of separate but equal. |
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| Famous army scout, buffalo hunter, and promoter of the “Wild West” mythology. |
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| Leader of the 600 Nez Percé who evaded the U.S. Army on a journey of 1300 miles toward Canada in 1877. |
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| Designed to make cheap land available to western settlers. |
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| Paiute Indian who claimed to receive revelations from the Great Spirit which led to the Ghost Dances. |
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| Cheyenne chief whose band was attacked at Sand Creek and later at the Washita River. |
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| The idea that the United States is unique among nations and destined to serve as a positive example to the rest of the world. |
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| A disease transmitted to cattle by parasite-carrying ticks. |
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| Illinois farmer who invented and marketed barbed wire. |
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| Common form of pioneer housing on the Great Plains. |
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| Term used to designate the Great Plains on many 19th Century maps. |
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| The last great Comanche war chief to be forced onto the reservation. |
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| tillage system designed to conserve water in semi-arid agricultural regions. |
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| Famous marksman who was a vaudeville and circus performer before joining Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. |
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| Nickname for pioneer farmers on the Great Plains who struggled to plow the prairie grasslands. |
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| The most famous of the western cattlemen who blazed the trails followed on the “long drives.” |
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