It was still the Wild West in those days, the Far West, the West of Owen Wister’s stories and Frederic Remington’s drawings, the West of the Indian and the buffalo-hunter, the soldier and the cow-puncher. ‘That land of the West has gone now, “‘gone, gone with lost Atlantis,” gone to the isle of ghosts and of strange dead memories. – TR, Autobiography, Chapter 4, “In Cowboy Land” (94)
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Hopi Snake Dance – TR
Harlow Brooks ⇨
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Text – letters that mention train travel?
[Hunting images from Outdoor Life magazines]
Wyoming Hunting Trips ⇨
Grand Canyon Hunting Trip ⇨
Led to the spread of towns and cities throughout the West and made it possible for East Coast residents to move West or travel there for short-term visits to visit family, vacation, visit the growing number of national parks, hunt, and even play cowboy.
⇦ New York City | Events ⇨
context about how the west was viewed and romanticized, Empiricism
Chinese railroad
Connecting of the Pacific RR, Chinese exclusion act
Towns began to be established
Bison
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee4691f0-c52e-012f-1118-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0
https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/virtual
Place for people in the city to go out into nature, be strong
Dude ranches – Celebration of wild west culture
Indian Wars, reservations