ABSTRACT
The post-Civil War ‘frontier’: the ‘miners’ frontier’ and the Great Plains: the buffalo, Indian wars and the Dawes Act (1887) – Land policy – The ‘ranchers’ frontier – The invasion by the farmer and ‘closing’ of the frontier (1890) – The Agricultural Revolution: mechanization, reclamation, specialization – The ‘agricultural industries’: implements, meat-packing, canning, milling – Government intervention – Agricultural education.
