History 4110

Issues Topic: Economics of the West

"The 19th century and early 20th century Westerner who attended rallies demanding an end to Eastern domination of the Western economy, would go out the next day and borrow money from an Eastern bank, order products from the East and sell stock to Eastern investors." Comment, making specific reference to at least one monograph on the topic.

cattle trade economics 1870s-1880s 

banks and the cattle industry in the northern Rockies

the Carson City mint

Cheyenne merchants

Civil War era taxation in the West

Western “stock exchanges”

western entrepreneurs (J. C. Penney)

sea otter trade

Western Federation of Miners

Western populism

bimetalism—debates over “free silver”

banking “regulation” in the Gilded Age

businessmen and residents of Kansas "cattle towns"

Park City mining barons

ZCMI