Chapter 26 Timeline

The Pike's Peak Gold Rush was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory. The participants in the gold rush were known as "Fifty-Niners" after 1859, the peak year of the rush and often used the motto Pike's Peak or Bust!

The Comstock Lode was the first major U.S. discovery of silver ore, located under what is now Virginia City, Nevada, on the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range.

The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land at little or no cost. This originally consisted of grants totaling 160 acres of unappropriated federal land within the boundaries of the public land states.

The Grange is a fraternal organization in the United States which encourages families to band together to promote the economic and political well-being of the community and agriculture.

The Battle of the Little Bighorn was an armed engagement between the Northern Cheyenne against the United States Army. The U.S. Seventh Cavalry, including the Custer Battalion, a force of 700 men led by George Armstrong Custer, suffered a severe defeat.

With the publication of this book the public became increasingly sympathetic to the plight of Indians.

The Sun Dance is a religious ceremony practiced by a number of Native Americans.

The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers. The Alliance generally supported the government regulation of the transportation industry, establishment of an income tax to better speculative profits, and the adoption of an inflationary relaxation of the nation's money supply as a means of easing the burden of repayment of loans by debtors.