Wild Bill Hickok James Butler Hickok was born in Troy Grove, Illinois, on May 27, 1837. He is better known as Wild Bill Hickok. Wild Bill was most famous for his lethal gun skills, but he was also known for his professional gambling, being a town marshal and even trying his hand at show business. As a boy in rural Illinois, James became recognized as an outstanding marksman with the pistol. His parents, Abner and Eunice Hickok, were very religious people. They would make James wear a
Why the Towns in the West Were Often Lawless and Violent In this essay I will be explaining why the towns in the West were frequently lawless and violent. The various factors why the West was lawless are: Geographical factors, social factors and values and attitudes. To begin with one of the reasons that the west was often violent and lawless was due to geographical factors. The size of the West was vast and this contributed to this problem. This is because it was impossible for officers
Aloysius “Louis” Baumann was a businessman who truly cared for the well being of his customers as well as his family. He was born on August 22nd, 1863 in Hirschau, Bavaria in southeast Germany. Louis accompanied his parents, Joseph and Anna, on the long journey to settle on a farm near the town of Branch in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Throughout the duration of his early years, Louis attended public school, dabbled in carpentry and assisted his family on the farm. In 1885 he moved to a farm
The video “Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee,” tells the story of being pushed onto reservations in the Midwest and Black Hills negotiations. The main characters include Charles Eastman, Red Cloud, and Sitting Bull. These characters each play a significant role in capturing the emotional state of life among the governing agencies and tribal members. Charles Eastman survived the Little Big Horn Valley Battle of June 1876. He was being raised by family and tribal members until his father of newly Christian
The Midwest: land of TV news anchors, housewives, and dreary, never-ending fields. In her memoir “The Horizontal World”, Debra Marquart uses interesting rhetorical techniques to detail this vast, distinctly uninteresting plain. By using unusual figurative language, outside examples to solidify her points, and a geometric extended metaphor, she paints a picture of perhaps the most boring place on Earth. Throughout the excerpt, Marquart utilizes unconventional imagery to solidify the dreariness of
Many believe the Dust Bowl was caused solely by bad weather, but Egan shows a multitude of factors that led to the catastrophe. In Timothy Egan’s book, The Worst Hard Time, Egan believes that the syndicate and government, overproduction of the land, and drought were all factors that caused the Dust Bowl. First, Egan believes that the Chicago Syndicate, as well as the government, took part in causing the Dust Bowl. The Worst Hard Time began with an explanation of how the land was inhabited after
president and what their contributions were and the ideology that is hidden within their actions that helped advance our nation to what it is today. Mount Rushmore is carved into an enormous granite outcrop erupting from the wilderness in the middle of South Dakota’s famous pine covered Black Hills. Granite, the rock that this monument is carved into is a very tough and durable stone, the excepted rate of erosion is “one inch every 10,000 years” (smithsonianmag.com). I believe that this choice in stone
Originally it was supposed to be built 60 miles north, but was moved in Sioux nation in fear of the pipeline breaking would result in the contamination of the water supply in Bismarck, North Dakota. It is also a spiritual battle for these people that the earth is sacred. It is the first time people from all different tribes come together and fight for one problem that they still exist to protect mother earth. They are the protector and they
with both white men and Indians. Sitting Bull was regarded as both one of the most powerful and one of the most famous Native American Chiefs to have lived. Sitting Bull was born in 1831 in an area along the Grand River in what is now known as South Dakota. His father was a Sioux warrior named Returns-Again (Biography.com) and his mother was called Her-Holy-Door. They originally named him Jumping Badger and was given the nickname Hunkesi which stands for “slow”. The reason for calling him Hunkesi
Crazy Horse During the time where the government was continuously suppressing the Native Americans, one man in particular seemed to stand up with great strength for the rights of his people. Going by the name of Crazy Horse, he was born around 1840, the time that the Lakota were at the height of their power. As time went on, a change began to occur in the once thriving land. The white settlers began to move to the west pushing for more land and gold. Still a kid, Crazy Horse was a bit distant from
blizzard came when a cold, arctic wind from Canada met with the winds that came from the south. Everyone, including the kids, were dressed up with short sleeves. Just like how somebody would wear on a hot, spring day. The air from Canada carried heavy snow and harsh winds along with it, causing the hurricane (Blizzard Brings Tragedy to Northwest Plains). The Children’s Blizzard hit both of South and North Dakota (back then in 1888, it was one territory), Nebraska, Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho
After many years of battling with the Native Americans for land, the United States grew tired of the fight and sought "peace". The first Fort Laramie treaty of 1851 acknowledged the Lakota territory, which consisted of North and South Dakota, parts of Montana, Nebraska, and Wyoming as belonging to the Sioux Indians. This was a considerably large section of land equating to about five percent of the United States (Calloway, 2012). The U.S. government realized the abundant natural resources of gold
Describe the overall purpose of their organizational effort Dennis Banks , an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe, was born in 1937 on the Leach Lake reservation in Minnesota and was raised by his grandparents. Dennis Banks grew up learning the traditional ways of the Ojibwa lifestyle. As a young child he was taken away from practicing his traditional ways and was put into a government boarding school that was designed for Indian children to learn the white culture. After years of attending the
The Dust Bowl was a devastating storm that affected the Midwestern people. Carloads and caravans of people streamed over the mountains, hungry and restless. The kids were hungry the adults were broken. The early thirties opened with prosperity and growth. At the time the Midwest was full of agricultural growth. The Panhandle of the Oklahoma and Texas region was the holy grail of agriculture. Farming was the major production in the United States in the 1930 's. The best crop that was prospering around
Mary Crow Dog uses her own experiences growing up as an Indian woman to beautifully explain the roles woman played, and how Indians tried to maintain tradition against assimilation. Mary Crow Dogs Lakota Woman is an autobiography of her life explaining how she, as a mixed Sioux Indian woman, grew up facing the harshness of boarding schools, absentee fathers, the second Wounded Knee, and the assimilation of Indians. Her autobiography is centered around the 1960s and 1970s, where she talks about reservation
Tatanka-Iyotanka, better known as Sitting Bull, was born in 1831, in the Grand River located in what’s now South Dakota. He was a Teton Dakota Indian who became chief under whom the Sioux tribes united in their struggle for survival on the North American Great Plains. He was the son of a chief, a man who was a very admirable Sioux warrior in his times by the name of Returns Again. Sitting Bull sought from his father and had the eagerness to follow in his pace. However, he never showed a particular
On December 29, 1890, after years of government led cultural genocide, troops came to camp to disarm the Lakota tribe at the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. This event quickly escalated to a massacre of Indian peoples. The spread of the Ghost Dance religion led to tensions between the Plains Indians and the United States Army and was the main reason for the Battle of Wounded Knee. This was just one example of American Indians having to choose between submission and death in the face of adversity
“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our lands, and they took it.” Red Cloud. The book Saga of the Sioux, the author discusses the different conflicts the natives have faced, and fully developed themes elaboration the harsh realities the Sioux tribe had dealt with over the westward expansion. In the story Saga of the Sioux, there are two major conflicts. Man vs Nature and Man vs Society. 12 infants and several old people freeze
In an attempt to understand whether or not Plenty Coups's hope was justified, philosopher Jonathan Lear brilliantly juxtaposes the great Crow chief's response to the collapse of civilization with the starkly contrasting response of the legendary Sioux chief Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull's understanding of courage was rooted firmly in traditional Sioux values and ideals which he took upon himself to embody, and therefore judged Plenty Coups's leadership and radical hope to be foolish and cowardly. Frederick
The oil pipeline weaves through the village and can be traced all the way back to its source—a Chinese drilling rig at the end of a newly-cleared road. When the rig is pumping during the night, the pipeline runs scalding hot, impossible to touch. In the morning, however, it is a great place to dry laundry. That is the ostensible benefit of the pipeline for members of the Waorani (also Huaorani) tribe, an indigenous population that inhabits the tropical rainforests of eastern Ecuador. Three indigenous