After reading Chapter 17, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following:

John M. Chivington and the Sand Creek Massacre

Geronimo

Great Sioux Reserve

Sitting Bull

George Armstrong Custer

Chief Joseph

Chief Dull Knife

Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor

Dawes Severalty Act, 1887

Wovoka, the Ghost Dance, and Wounded Knee

Pacific Railroad Act, 1862

Homestead Act, 1862

Timber Culture, Desert Land, and Timber and Stone acts, 1870s

Henry Comstock and the Comstock Lode

Joseph G. McCoy and the cattle frontier

the Oklahoma land rush and the "sooners"

Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis"

Ned Buntline and William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody

John Wesley Powell, Henry D. Washburn, George Perkins Marsh, John Muir, and the birth of the conservation movement