Where did women impact the American West Lizzie

Where did women impact the American West? Lizzie E Johnson owned a cattle business in her own right. She invested money she had earnt teaching and became one of the most successful contributors to the cattle industry. Thought to be the first woman on the Chisholm trail. Belle Starr was part of the Starr crime family (Cherokee). She would ride sidesaddle, in velvet dresses with pistols at her waist. She was jailed for stealing horses in 1883 and fatally shot in 1889. Clara Brown was a former slave who worked her way to Colorado and invested that money in mining and property. She was influential in establishing the early mines of Colorado. Natawista was a Blackfoot Indian who worked as a negotiator between settlers and Indians. She persuaded her cousin to let traders pass through Blackfoot lands. This is Lizzie’s cattle business when it was officially registered in the records of Travis County. What can we infer from it about women’s role in the West? What was the Chisholm Trail? What does Belle Starr suggest about lawlessness in the West? How did mines help settlement of a town? Why didn’t the Blackfoot want traders going through their land? How did cattle barons help the cattle industry? Belle Starr lived on the Indian land in Oklahoma. What can we infer about life on that reservation? What was the importance of mining towns for law and order Why were negotiators important? Summarise how women impacted the American West: