Gilded+Age

__WILD WEST__
• Many thought the Wild West was cowboys, guns, cows, fights, and horses. • It was also pioneering the frontier and homesteading. • Cowboys tamed the Wild West. • 1877 the Congress passed the Desert Land Act (DLA). • Settlers couldn’t buy more than 640 acres of public land for 25 cents per acre. • The people used stagecoaches and horses to get around back in the Wild West. •