New Frontiers

New Frontiers: South and West

Custer's Last Stand: The Little Bighorn

ASSIGNMENTS

Henretta: Chapter Sixteen

Primary Sources

Henry W. Grady - The New South

The Nation: "The State of the South

Sharecropping Tenants on a Georgia Plantation

Almost Broken Spirits - Farmers in the New South

Frederick Douglass - The Future of the Colored Race	The South's Recovery - Who paid the Price of Success?
Fighting Back: A Black Lawyer argues against Disenfranchisement	Prof. Willis Boughton: "The Negro's Place in History
An African American Dreams about Rebuilding the South	Plessy vs. Ferguson
Plessy vs. Ferguson - Dissent of Justice Harlan	W.E.B. Dubois - "Strivings of the Negro People"

W.E.B. DuBois - A Negro Postmaster in the New South	B.B. Mumford - The Vindication of the South
Alabama Voting Literacy Law	Photos: Children in Southern Cotton Mills

Testimony of Col J. M. Chivington (Sand Creek Massacre)	Testimony of Mr. J. S. Smith (Sand Creek Massacre)
The Lawrence Massacre	The Fort Laramie Treaty
The Homestead Act (1862)	The Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Frank Mayer and Charles Roth - The Buffalo Harvest	Photo - Survey Team Charting the Transcontinental Railroad Route

Photo - Directors of Union Pacific RR at the 100th Meridian	Photo - Central Pacific RR Work Camp (1868)
Photo - Joining the Rails at Promontory Point, Utah	Photo - Cheyenne Women Dressing Buffalo Hides
Photo - Buffalo Slaughter - 1872	Photo - Rath and Wright Buffalo Hide Yard, Dodge City
Photo - G.A. Custer and Grand Duke Alexis of Russia on Buffalo Hunt	Photo - Cowboys Branding Mavericks

Photo - Cowboys Eating Dinner on the Range	Photo - Cowboys Bedding Down while others get ready
Chief Red Horse - Eyewitness Account of Battle of the Little Bighorn	Brigham Young - Deposition regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Last Words of John D. Lee (Executed for Mountain Meadows Massacre	Chief Joseph Speaks - Selected Statements and Speeches
Charles E.S. Wood - The Pursuit and Capture of Chief Joseph	Photo - George Armstrong Custer

Photo - Custer at the Head of the 1874 Black Hills Expedition	Photo - Custer and Scouts
Photo - Lakota Camp at Pine Ridge Reservation	Photo - Sitting Bull
Photo - U.S. Army Private on the Indian Frontier	Newspaper Editorials on the Sand Creek Massacre
The Court Martial of George Armstrong Custer	Report to the President by the Indian Peace Commission 1868

Report of the Commissioner on Indian Affairs (1871)	Dawes Act
Hatch Act	Photo: Lakota Ghost Dancing Shirt
Captain Charles King: Custer's Last Battle	Eyewitness Account of the Lakota Ghost Dance
Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee	Wavoka's Message: "The Promise of the Ghost Dance"

Web Links

	The Booker T. Washington Era (Library of Congress)
	Center for the Study of Southern Culture - University of Mississippi
	Chronology on the Study of Slavery and Racism - 1830 - end
	The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780 - 1925 (Library of Congress)
	Documenting the American South - University of North Carolina
	First Person Narratives of the American South - 1860 - 1920 (Library of Congress)
	From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
	Introduction to the Jim Crow South


	MAP - The Indian Wars - 1864 - 1890
	MAP - The Railroad Network - 1880
	Songs of the Plains - A Collection of Cowboy Folk Songs
	The American West
	The California Heritage Collection
	Frederick Jackson Turner - The Significance of the Frontier in American History
	American Indian History and Related Issues
	Battle of the Little Bighorn
	Battle with the Apache 1872
	Buffalo Soldiers and Indian Wars
	Crazy Horse and Custer - The Sioux Wars and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
	Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum Association
	Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
	Artcyclopedia - Frederick Remington
	Little Bighorn Association
	Triumph and Tragedy - Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail
	The Wild, Wild West - Large Number of Links
	Wounded Knee Home Page