The document summarizes key events and developments in the American West between the mid-19th century and late 19th century, including the lives of Plains Indians, the rise of mining and railroads, cattle drives and ranching, and the decline of the buffalo and Native American way of life. It mentions the Comstock Lode silver strike, the building of the transcontinental railroad, the Chisholm Trail that drove cattle to market, the Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people, the Battle of Little Big Horn, the Ghost Dance religion, and the Wounded Knee massacre.
24. Ghost Dance Wovoka began spreading the "gospel" that came to be known as the Ghost Dance Religion. He claimed that the earth would soon perish and then come alive again in a pure, aboriginal state, to be inherited by the Indians, including the dead, for an eternal existence free from suffering.
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