The level of violent in the old west was due to the Indians people, more than highly death in the west side. The late 1800s the settlers and the railroad construction come to the Great Plains conflicts the Indians following of the civil war. The old west was violent there was a murder a day because there was 100 people died and that was buried in Benton Wyoming. The cow towns, railroads town and the Indians war was most violent in the west. Cow towns has many deaths in 1996 nearly many state have people who got murder in a day about 10 times. There was evidence in cow towns “so they swing back and forth the dead body when they got murder “(doc D). Another one is “so they forthwith took this man to the creek a little north west of our house and hung him to the beam of the old west “(doc D). So cow towns have many death in 1996 this state have murders a day, kids was playing with the body when they got hung. …show more content…
Most ranchers and settlers lost their lives they have many Indians whooping and shooting from the troop’s horse. There was evidence in Indian wars “ten men’s had died on the island and another 20 have been seriously wounded” (Doc H). Only a few of men died / wounded form Beecher Island. Another evidence is “let kill them, skin and sell until the buffalos are exterminated “(doc N). Nearly some Indians try to kill there buffalos (there resources) to have better clothes and tools to make. The Indians was responsible for the resources and there death that are wounded from the Indian war. Some may argue that the old west was not so violent due by so many murder only come some years between 0 to 1 murders a day. They are wrong because there was only 60 days but one murder could happen in a day spreading the population. The old west was violent from the late 1800s cause by the Indians they want to go to the Great Plains there wasn’t going to harm others only 10 times as likely to be murdered out of
McMurtry, Larry. 2005. Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846-1890. 10th Ed. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.
When the average modern American thinks of the Old West, they often think of cattle drives, outlaws and lawmen, and John Wayne; things they see in western movies. Another staple in western movies is the range war, it is important for modern Americans to know which parts of the west were true and which were false. The range wars of the late 1800’s were important to rights and responsibilities because they changed the way many people lived in the west and midwest, finally stating the concept of private and public property.
According to Santana, Chief of the Kiowa, “These soldiers cut down my timber; they kill my buffalo; and when I see that, my heart feels like bursting; I feel sorry” (Santana, 1867). This quote shows the Chief of the Kiowa’s perspective of the actions the American soldiers were taking. In Europe, timber was in high demand since Europe 's supply was running low. This resulted in Americans cutting down many of their trees to trade with Europe. Native Americans expressed great gratitude for their land and when it was being destroyed it affected them deeply. In “Promise of the High Plains,” a flyer created in the 1800s it states, “The finest timber West of the Great Wabash Valley” (The Railroaders) when trying to convince the people why to move west. This flyer shows that Americans were advertising the timber on the western land to convince more people to move. Buffalo was also a very important resource for the Native Americans culture and way of life. Buffalo was used as food, clothing, and housing. Not only were Buffalo used for survival, but they were also part of their religious rituals. With buffalo numbers decreasing fast, Native Americans tribes faced starvation and desperation. There were many different actions the Americans did to destroy the land of the Native Americans. The murder of Buffalo and cutting down of timber was just a few of the impacts the settlers
In the past, many things have influenced me of how the Native Americans had to survive. For instance, some types of material that helped me realize just what the Native Americans had to endure in order to survive were history classes, books, the Internet, movies, television shows, and this article. In Black Elk’s article, the account of Custer’s Last Stand only reinsured my views. Black Elk explains some of the suffering and how the Native Americans had to search for a new location constantly. Black Elk also shows that the military drove the Native Americans out of their homelands, and how badly the Native Americans were treated.
The development of the Western genre originally had its beginnings in biographies of frontiersmen and novels written about the western frontier in the late 1800’s based on myth and Manifest Destiny. When the film industry decided to turn its lenses onto the cowboy in 1903 with The Great Train Robbery there was a plethora of literature on the subject both in non-fiction and fiction. The Western also found roots in the ‘Wild West’ stage productions and rodeos of the time. Within the early areas of American literature and stage productions the legend and fear of the west being a savage untamed wilderness was set in the minds of the American people. The productions and rodeos added action and frivolity to the Western film genre.
The West has always held the promise of opportunity for countless Americans. While many African Americans struggled to find the equality promised to them after the Civil War, in the West black cowboys appeared to have created some small measure of it on the range. Despite this, their absence from early historical volumes has shown that tolerance on the range did not translate into just treatment in society for them or their families.
Elliot West writes, "We can think of western history as one of conflicting narratives. Just as people have fought for control of resources and for dominance of institutions and values, so the West has been an arena where stories have contested to command that country's meaning and thus to influence how the West is treated." In 1860, America was “divided” in two; the eastern half and the western half. For many years Native Americans have lived in the Midwest; it was home to them. It gave them farming land, animals for hunting, land for gathering and a place to build a home, but when European settlers came to America to call it home everything changed. There are many different stories about the west, they all very depending on who wrote it
Actually that came from another characteristic of a western, the conflict between settlers and Indians, after being raised with the Indians for three years he had killed several settlers. Then after he had left the Indians side to join the white mans army he killed many more Indians, that's how he had crafted his skills as a gunman and survivalist. It even is shown in the story that he has been killing for years, when he kills the first two Indians, he has a fast and accurate shooting style. Also he has the background to know were others may be hiding such as in a bush, or
A summary of the film begins and ends with two violent, bloody gun battles (Ebert, 2016). The outlaws look for one last score and they find it by striking a deal with a corrupt Mexican General. They are persuaded to hold up a train full of army munitions in exchange for $10,000 and a safe haven from a Mexican General and his troops. The whole time they are planning and carrying out their plot, they are being chased and hunted by a bounty hunter and his crew. In the final scene, the outlaw gang robs a train, but it leads to a violent and blood bath confrontation where hundreds of innocent people are gunned down (America Film Institute, n.d.). Goodykoontz and Jacobs (2014), noted “Typical Westerns deal with maintaining law and order on the frontier, and their conflict derives from easily defined opposites of good vs. evil” (p. 81). During the film The Wild Bunch, the law, in the form of bounty hunters, is always on their heels. While bad guys can be heroes, western movies typically pit the forces of good against evil and audiences typically like to see good triumph over evil. Goodykoontz and Jacobs (2014) note, “In westerns, as in many films, the hero and the villain may often be parallel opposites, two sides of the same coin, so to speak, and representative of the conflicting tendencies within any individual” (p. 81). This is true
The story of the American West is still being told today even though most of historic events of the Wild West happened over more than a century ago. In movies, novels, television, and more ways stories of the old west are still being retold, reenacted, and replayed to relive the events of the once so wild and untamed land of the west that so many now fantasize about. After reading about the old west and watching early westerns it is amazing how much Hollywood still glorifies the history and myth of the old west. It may not be directly obvious to every one, but if you look closely there is always a hint of the Western mentality such as honor, justice, romance, drama, and violence. The most interesting thing about the Old West is the fact that history and myth have a very close relationship together in telling the story of the West.
One of the main forms of violence in the Old West was murder; the rising tension between the American soldiers and the Native Americans was a main contributor to this violence. An example of this strain is the Sand Creek Massacre. American soldiers attacked unaware Native Americans of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe ethnic groups. All men, women, and children were killed and/or tortured. There were no survivors. “Two soldiers drew their pistols and shot her [a little girl]”, portraying that these sort of crimes came about regularly in the West (Document G). Another example of this is the Battle of Beecher Island. The Battle of Beecher Island, also known as the Battle of Arikaree Fork, was the armed disagreement between soldiers of the U.S. Army and a few Native American tribes. According to Document H, there were “at least 50 [men dead]; perhaps as many as 200 [men] were wounded” (Document H). Adding on to the uneasiness between the Native Americans and the white soldiers, many killings were encountered by foolishness, not battle. The Native Americans and the soldiers wanted to prove that their race is more macho and better than the other. Even though Document L states that “113 [people] recorded no trouble with the Indians”, Document M detects many problems with the Native Americans resulting in “919” troops killed (Document L, Document M). The white soldiers in the Old West would have loved to kill the Native American’s buffalo popu...
There are three reasons violence took place in the West: personal, collective, and state-sanctioned warfare. These of course all had many factors to them like economic factors, racial and ethnic factors, American values, and labor unions. Personal violence is the most common type and it includes “assault, murder, suicide, rape, and violent robbery or vandalism” Collective violence also known as group violence in the West was mainly “banditry, lynching and vigilante actions” State sanctioned violence had to do with the Spanish conquest and Indian wars. Some examples of extreme violence were lots of Indian attacks from whites and the U.S. military forcing “marches, dispossession of their homelands, and incarceration in prisons and reservations”
The Wild West is known for its cowboys and gunslingers. In the Wild West the pistol
The Wild West begins after the Civil War in 1865 and lasted 30 years. It was called the Wild West because of their lawlessness which allowed wild and unrestrained behavior. The American Wild West was a country with a lot of danger, including cowboys, guns, and horses where Chon Wang had the role of a famous sheriff. This supported that the film is historically realistic because famous outlaws and lawmen of the American wild west. There are real famous sheriffs who took down the outlaws, bandit bank robbers and thieves. For example, the legendary outlaw Billy the kid was brought to justice by Sheriff Pat Garrett after trailing Billy for over six months and many other outlaws. With all immigrants and scattered people come together, the American wild west represented a growth of our nation and a united country.
Americans and the world at large have determined that the Wild West has only certain characteristics and constraints. They believe that there is always a cowboy or lawman as the good guy. Bad guys are seen as rough, maybe crazy, and unredeemable. The terrain also gets a reputation for being unforgiving to the unprepared by being filled with danger. However, not all of these conceptions are necessarily true. By going through works over the subject that were written by historians and then comparing their findings to the public's perception of the West, the truth will be found. The good guys, the bad outlaws, and the unmistakable landscape have always been important to portrayals of the West, and there are examples and reasons not only for those