The Wild West
Born Robert Leroy Parker in Beaver, Utah, on Apr. 13, 1866, Cassidy was the oldest of 13 children and had no formal education. Cassidy became a cowboy while still in his teens when he met Mike Cassidy, adopting Cassidy's name after he joined him in rustling cattle in Utah and Colorado.
Robert Clay Allison worked on his parents' farm near Waynesboro, Tenn., until he was twenty-one. Immediately upon the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and went off willingly to fight for the South. He had a clubfoot that did not seem to hamper his ability to perform active duty. He saw action in several battles but was sent home in March 1862 to recuperate from wounds that seemed more mental than physical, a Confederate doctor stating that Allison was suffering from a condition that was "partly epileptic and partly maniacal." He had reportedly threatened to shoot his superiors following one battle because they refused to pursue and execute retreating Union troops.
One of the most unusual stagecoach robbers in American history was an old man known in the annals of the West as Black Bart. He used many aliases, including Charles E. Bolton and Charles E. Boles, the latter, most probably his true name. Bart, in addition to being an expert lone bandit who robbed more than two dozen stages in California in 1877-78, he was a jokester whose laughing nature endeared him even to his victims.
Billy the Kid was reportedly born in New York City on Nov. 23, 1859, the son of William and Kathleen (or Catherine) McCarty Bonney, and named William H. Bonney. Another story has it that he was born on Sept. 17, 1859, as Patrick Henry McCarty to Catherine and Patrick McCarty. And still another account has it that he was b...
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...to have robbed one. Pearl Taylor was born in Ontario, Canada to a well to do family. Her family sent her to the finest schools available during the early 1880's and in 1888 she met and fell in love with Frederick Hart. Frederick Hart was a gambler, who lost more money then he won, and Pearl's life with him was a tough one. The couple traveled to the Columbian Exposition of 1893, in Chicago, where Pearl worked odd jobs. At the Exposition, she saw various Wild West shows depicting the heroes and myths of the Old West. She was so completely overwhelmed by these story's and theatrics that she abruptly left her husband and moved to Colorado.
Born in 1848 in the town of Carthage, Missouri, Myra Belle Shirley (later to become the notorious Belle Starr) was one of three children. After her older brother was killed, the family moved to Scyene, Texas, just outside of Dallas.
... Later the grave was robbed, the pistol and jewelry were gone. In the legendary period of American history known as the Old West, the law of the whole nation had yet to tame that frontier, which was spottily settled. This resulted in lawlessness seen in the personage of those known as outlaws and lawbreakers whose notorious reputations often exceeded their very person to mythical proportions. Belle Starr was one such outlaw.
Quanah Parker was born in 1845, the exact date of his birth is not known due to the times and the lack of recording dates like birthdays back then. Also the exact place of his birth is unknown, it is thought to be somewhere along the Texas-Oklahoma border, but there are conflicting reports. Quanah himself said that he was born on Elk Creek south of the Wichita Mountains, but a marker by Cedar Lake in Gaines County, Texas says otherwise. There are still other places where he was supposedly born like Wichita Falls, Texas. “Though the date of his birth is recorded variously at 1845 and 1852, there is no mystery regarding his parentage. His mother was the celebrated captive of a Comanche raid on Parker's Fort (1836) and convert to the Indian way of life. His father
Billie Holiday was born in Baltimore in 1915 on the 7th of April. Her real name is Eleanora Fagan Gough. Her mother was named Sadie Julia Fagan and had Eleanor as a teenager. Her dad name is Clarence Holiday who became a successful jazz musician as well. When Eleanor was a child she often skipped school, leading her mother to court because of truancy. When holiday was younger she said, "I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was 6 years old." She was sent to a school for troubled girls when she was 9 years old. Before her teen years, Billy and her mother moved to Harlem, N.Y. because her mother was searching for a job. Her mother was arrested after that. Billie married and remarried a couple
In the book Into The Wild the main character Alex did some questionable things. Although he did some unusual things, he was sane. Alex was well educated and highly respected by everyone who knew him.
The Life of Billy Joel Billy Joel was born on May 9, 1949 in Bronx, New York. He moved at the age of four to a small town on Long Island. This is where at the ripe age of four he discovered the art of music. Originally a classical music fan, Billy Joel honed his skills with classical piano training. This undoubtedly has had a major influence on his life and certainly his music.
Clyde Chestnut Barrow was born on March 24, 1909, into a family of four children. Ironically, when the midwife told a local physician of his birth, the physician incorrectly recorded it as “baby girl Barrow'; in the Vital Statistics volume of the Ellis County Courthouse at Waxahachie. Three additional children followed Clyde’s birth, and the families financial difficulties worsened as the price for cotton bounced up and down. After some years, the Barrow’s found it impossible to provide for their children and sent them to live with relatives in east Texas. At one relatives home, Clyde developed two interests that remained with him to the end of his life: a passion for music, and an obsession with guns.
In 1862, William Ashley (yes, his middle name was Ashley) Sunday was born to a fatherless home in Ames, Iowa. His father had died whilst serving for his divided country in the Civil War. Billy had received his name from his brave and valiant father.
Belle Boyd was actually named Isabella Marie Boyd. People started calling her “La Belle Rebelle” which led to the nickname Belle. She was born on May 9, 1844 and was the first of eight children. Her father and mother were Benjamin Reed and Mary Rebecca Boyd. Belle Boyd and her family moved to Martinsburg State when she was ten. They had six slaves and one was named Eliza Corsey. She was Belle Boyd’s good friend and Belle taught Eliza how to read and write even though it was against the law. Boyd was a tomboy who loved climbing trees and playing with her relatives. Her family didn’t have much money, but she still received a good education. At age 12, she received some preliminary schooling then went to Mount Washington Female College in Baltimore, Maryland. She finished college when she was 16.
Sometimes a character may be pushed over the edge by our materialistic society to discover his/her true roots, which can only be found by going back to nature where monetary status was not important. Chris McCandless leaves all his possessions and begins a trek across the Western United States, which eventually brings him to the place of his demise-Alaska. Jon Krakauer makes you feel like you are with Chris on his journey and uses exerts from various authors such as Thoreau, London, and Tolstoy, as well as flashbacks and narrative pace and even is able to parallel the adventures of Chris to his own life as a young man in his novel Into the Wild. Krakauer educates himself of McCandless’ story by talking to the people that knew Chris the best. These people were not only his family but the people he met on the roads of his travels- they are the ones who became his road family.
Belle Starr was born on February 5,1848 in Carthage Missouri. Belle lived with her parents and her one sister and five brothers. Belle was the daughter of John Shirley and his third wife, Elizabeth Hatfield Shirley. A pianist, Belle grew up with her parents and their other children, including much older half-siblings from her father’s other marriages. Her elder brother John Addison influenced her, as the fact that she grew up in the years leading up to the Civil War in Missouri territory. Though Belle received her education
Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland, Arkansas on February 26, 1932. He was a singer, guitarist, songwriter, author, and actor. His parents were Ray Cash and Carrie Cloveree and had six other siblings. Knowing how old Johnny
This week I read Outlaw Culture by Hooks which talks about Cristopher Columbus and his colonization, or rather domination, of the Native Americans and African Americans. One of the most shocking parts of this reading was the part about how African Americans had actually visited the Americas long before Columbus ever did. Not only this, but the African Americans did not feel the need to settle this land or dominate it. They simply shared stories and goods and then returned home. Having such a peaceful interaction is unheard of in the history of white cultures. It seems like they feel they need to dominate minorities and appear superior over them in order to create a civilization. This chapter also discusses how history books seem to portray
The main techniques that the author Mark Twain uses to show you a little of what it is like to be in the Old West during the Gold Rush is contrasting East with West with the use of the characters and the use of language and plot are distinctly good examples of realism and regionalism. In late 19th century American society/culture, the East was known for being civilized, cultured, and advanced while the West was seen as less educated and refined and naive or easily duped. Mark Twain uses these bias/stereotypes in his characters. Simon Wheeler, a American Western storyteller, is a old uneducated man who tell tall tales in a monotone with no storytelling techniques and vernacular language and his use of vernacular language supports the stereotype
Shirley Chisholm was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Barbadian parents. When she was three years old, Shirley was sent to live with her grandmother on a farm in Barbados, a former British colony in the West Indies. She received much of her primary education in the Barbadian school Her ideals were perfect for the times. In the mid-1960s the civil rights movement was in full swing.
In the American old west myths,legends,and fairy tales are all highly exaggerated and hard to find real ones,but some you read are true. The American Old West was a brutal environment that can very easily be considered the deadliest of the world due to its environments that it suits some but in total this world is where the Myths,Legends,and Fairy tales come from there for some are fake but some are real.Ex-Billy the kid. The Religion that the old west was known for was the Catholic religion that they would and still do believe in jesus and god but Myths that come from this culture are mostly false some are true such as the moth man and his ways of praying on the weak.As well as the traditions in this place were harsh and brutal. Gives the