Settling the Great Plains, 1850-1885

Uses paintings of the early western America by Charles Russell and Frederic Remington to describe the problems encountered in settling the Great Plains and the Great American Desert. Pictures the challenges involved in settling arid territories, fighting Indians, and raising cattle. Presents the controversy between the cattlemen and the farmer and the role played by the "six-gun" the barbed wire fence, and the railroads in settling this struggle. , Uses paintings of the early western America by Charles Russell and Frederic Remington to describe the problems encountered in settling the Great Plains and the Great American Desert. Pictures the challenges involved in settling arid territories, fighting Indians, and raising cattle. Presents the controversy between the cattlemen and the farmer and the role played by the "six-gun" the barbed wire fence, and the railroads in settling this struggle.