What do you think was the most common way settlers traveled across the West in the early 1800s?

 How does this photograph show how transportation in the West began to change at the turn of the century?

 

 

What do you think a “hide hunter” is, and why do you think white settlers in the West chose to take on this job?

 

 

 How did life for white settlers and Native Americans on the Great Plains change in the late 1800s?

 

How does this photograph show how difficult it was for cowboys to drive cattle to railheads in the American West?

 How might this picture show how prices of beef began to change in the late 1800s with overproduction?

 

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Mr. Hall's 8R Social Studies Class
Buckley Country Day School
Roslyn, New York

STANDARD 1: History of the United States and New York

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their under-standing of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.

STANDARD 3: Geography Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their under-standing of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live— local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.