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On May 27, 1837 born in Troy Grove, Illinois John Butler Hickok was the child of William Alonzo Hickok and Polly Butler Hickok. Hickok had a total of four brothers and two sisters. His parents were strict and had high expectations for him. When his parents operated a part of the underground railroad, Hickok found a passion for guns. His passion for guns originated when he and his father were chased by police officers because the police assumed that they were carrying people in their wagon and not just hay. As a child he practiced his shooting on his farm where he could shoot small animals. He was a renowned marksman with a love for the wild west, but when he was only of the age of fourteen, his dad was killed due to his views and thoughts on slavery. At the age of seventeen, Hickok left his home in Troy Grove and became a towpath driver on the Illinois and Michigan canal. He left to Kansas and got a job in Monticello to ride the Santa Fe and Oregon trails as a stagecoach driver. In Kansas, Hickok met a man by the name of Bill Cody who he would meet again later on. In 1855, Indians and bandits attacked and robbed stagecoaches often, but Hickok took advantage of this. With his excellent skill in shooting, Hickok rode with stagecoaches and defended them from …show more content…
John Butler Hickok was also commonly know as “Wild Bill”, but how the nickname originated has not been proven to be true. Whether it was received during his time in the army or not is unknown but it has been said that it originated when a lady yelled,”Good for you, Wild Bill!” after he had stopped a mob of drunkards from hanging a bartender, who had just shot a hoodlum in a brawl, by firing two shots above the heads of the crowd stopping the crazy mob. Even though the lady had mistaken Hickok for another man, the name stayed with him for the rest of his
...rnia. Wyatt Earp died on January 13, 1929, and his fame as a lawman has continued to grow since his death. Wyatt Earp literally shot his way into the hearts of Western America. He is familiar to the nation’s people, young and old. From Ellsworth, Kansas to Tombstone, Arizona, he cleaned the streets of desperadoes in town after town. He shot coolly, he shot straight, and he shot deadly, but only in self-defense. Like any other person whose reputation leaned on firepower, there were those who wanted to test, to see if their draw was a split second quicker or if they could find a weak spot. Wyatt put many of their doubts to rest. When the history of the western lawmen is placed in view, Earp’s name leads the parade of Hickok, Masterson, Garrett, Tilghman and all the rest.
Lost by his parents at a young age, Pecos Bill was raised by a pack of coyotes who treated him like one of their own. When Bill reached adulthood, he left his coyote family and took up ranching and cattle herding as a profession. Most of Bill’s adventures him protecting his herd of prized cows out in the sandy desert. He rode a snarling mountain lion and a swirling cyclone to make sure they did not take his cows. Bill even used a lasso of rattle snakes to rope his whole herd at
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In 1876 Wyatt Earp was hired as an assistant Marshall in Dodge City, Kansas, one of the worst places in America at the time. In Dodge City daylight muggings and nighttime shootings were an everyday thing. When Wyatt became a lawman there he was able to stop the crimes without killing anybody, he put them in jail. One of his techniques was called ?buffaloing? where he would knock a criminal on the head with his favorite weapon, the Colt 45.
When Wyatt was finally 17 he went to California. His first job was to haul freight. Later on he was hired to grade the railroads for Union Pacific. During his free time he would box and he also became an adapt gambler. Wyatt Earp then moved back to Missouri. His father resigned as constable of the township in Lamar, Missouri, Earp replaced him. By 1870 he'd m...
The Metamorphosis of Johnny Tremain Johnny Tremain is like a butterfly; he went through a transformation. Johnny Tremain is a book by Esther Forbes about a crippled boy during the American Revolution and the events he endures. Johnny Tremain was a very dynamic character because people and events affected him. People change main characters in many books. Johnny Tremain is no exception.
John Wilkes Booth infamously known for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln was himself an interesting personality. The man was a well-known American stage actor at the Ford’s theatre, Washington. Booth believed slavery was a part of the American way of life and strongly opposed president Lincoln’s view on abolition of slavery in the United States.
Poet, journalist, essayist, and novelist Richard Wright developed from an uneducated Southerner to one of the most cosmopolitan, politically active writers in American literature. In many of Richard Wright's works, he exemplifies his own life and proves to “white” America that African American literature should be taken seriously. Before Wright, “white” America failed to acknowledge the role African American writing played in shaping American culture. It was shocking in itself that an African American could write at all. Thus, Richard Wright is well known as the father of African American literature mainly because of his ability to challenge the literary stereotypes given to African Americans.
When he was 18 years old by the time he was graduating his high school. He married an16 year-old Maryann Burk after graduation. When he became twenty years old, he had two babies. He stopped helping his father at the saw-mill, and started to take various jobs to maintain his children and wife.
John Audubon is arguably the greatest American artist-naturalist that has lived. (Pg.17 of source #4) He was intrigued by the natural world and at the same time enjoyed the elegant feeling painting brought him. Although he is not the first artist to attempt to paint and describe all the birds of America, “he was the young countries dominant wildlife artist for over half a century. Audubon used his artistic skills to portray American birds in their natural habitat. His knowledge on birds, the environment and artistic practices made his work extremely different from others. Through his art he dismays an intense affection for birds by using a scientific and objective approach. His passion for exploring the beauty of birds and the nature that surrounded them lead him to create paintings that are well known today. The natural world and scenes from everyday life are common themes that are portrayed throughout his works.
As George Washington Carver quoted, “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ”. George Washington Carver was a famous African American that became knowledgeable about the uses of peanuts.
Jesse James was born on September 5th, 1847, in Kearney Missouri. His parents, Zerelda and Robert James, were hemp farmers who owned six slaves. In 1963 Frank’s activities with the Confederates brought the wrath of Union minutemen to the James family farm. Jesse was beaten, and his step-father was tortured for information. This is said the be what started Jesse’s brutal treatment of people, and his “don’t care” attitude. After this Jesse felt the need to fight back, so in the spring of 1864, he joined the Confederate Guerrilla group. This was lead by the man “Bloody Bill” Anderson. This group terrorized pro-Union people all up the Missouri countryside. Jesse was involved in many atrocities. One of which being the Centralia Massacre, where twenty unarmed soldiers were forced off of the train, and then got executed. Then over 100 other soldiers were slaughtered while trying to hunt them down. Then the Guerrillas mangled many of their victims. All of these experiences led up the man Jesse would end up being.
“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...” ― Richard Wright, Black Boy this is a quote from the famous Richard Wright an African American author. This quote means that no matter what was placed in his way or what he lacked that others had he hung on to what he had and did what he could. And the more he read about the world, the more he longed to see it and make a permanent break from the Jim Crow South. "I want my life to count for something," he told a friend. Richard Wright wanted to make a difference in the world and a difference he did make. Richard Wright was an important figure in American History because he stood astride the midsection of his time period as a battering ram, paving the way for many black writers who followed him, these writers were Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lorraine Hansberry, John Williams. In some ways he helped change the American society.
This book starts in the pre-revolutionary time. At the beginning of the book, Johnny Tremain, is working as an apprentice to Mr. Lapham. Mr. Lapham is a blacksmith. Johnny’s parents died in a fire several years before, and this is why he lived with the Laphams. He worked there with enthusiasm for several years until he hurt his arm, scolding it in hot metal. After the accident, Mr. Lapham told Johnny that he needs to find a different profession, but he can stay with the laphams.
When one thinks of the United States of America, they probably consider our history, our culture, our media, our impressive cities and the extremely wide variety of beautiful wildernesses that we are lucky enough to still enjoy. We are lucky enough to have a melting pot of cultures in this country, and many different kinds of people. However, when thinking of an original, all-American figure, cowboys come to mind for many people. Our history and the settlement of the U.S. was unlike any other country, and the development of the country in the more western states came with the unique and fascinating time period referred to now as “The Old West”. The Old West was a crucial time in American history, and though it was a simpler time it also came with its share of excitement. Some of the most memorable details about the Old West were the characters that came with it, and some extremely interesting ones were the least conforming- the outlaws. Jesse Woodson James was one of the most notorious outlaws in American history. His name would go down in history as one belonging to a tough as nails and fearless bank robber who led a group of outlaws across the mid-west robbing banks and trains, and even murdering people. When we look at the big picture of what the U.S. has become today, The Old West certainly has had a large impact on our culture, and Jesse James certainly had a large impact on the Old West. Though most would argue that he was not a decent or moral person, one cannot argue that he was still a very interesting and unique icon of the west. So how did Jesse Woodson James change and leave his mark on the United St...