Guiding Question: What encouraged settlers to move west to the Great Plains? * The Great Plains is a vast region of prairie roughly was of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains. * Settlers faced many challenges with the weather * In this dry grassland‚ trees naturally grew only by the rivers and streams. * To get water they often had to drill wells more than 100 feet deep * Eventually this land turned into Americans wheat belt * In 1862 the government passed the
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Between the 1860’s and 1890’s‚ the west of the United States got its name "the Old West" and a reputation of being violent. Now there are many movies‚ books‚ television shows‚ and many other things based on the Old West having: cowboys‚ gunfights‚ rough towns‚ and Indian attacks. Some people may believe that the Old West really was like this‚ but I think the west wasn’t any more violent than other areas of the United States at this time. Less people lived in the west at this time so one murder may be
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Although many consider the Old West violent and bad‚ it was actually a mix of the good‚ the bad‚ and the ugly. The Old West began in the 1860’s up until 1890. It was also called the Great Plains and stretched from west of the Mississippi River all the way to Rocky Mountains. Many Americans traveled out west in search of adventure and a fresh start. There were a variety of job opportunities available‚ such as becoming a farmer‚ miner‚ or railroad worker. In the Old West‚ violence was prevalent‚ but
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probably the first thing that pops into your head when you hear The Old West‚ however was that actually what happened? The movies portray the west as an action packed‚ good vs evil utopia of sorts. There’s always an antagonist‚ a protagonist‚ some love interest‚ and a gun fight of course. This just leaves me with a few questions: what is a myth and why are they important?‚ how has the old west myth affected our society?‚ and why was the west so popular? First off‚ what is a myth? Webster’s Dictionary defines
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one could make the argument that cultural artifacts have negatively and positively influenced society. Through mediums of survival‚ crime and controversy‚ guns have had a substantial impact on American culture. Guns have had an apparent connection to the legal system that reflects and influences American culture. As a result of recent incidents‚ like the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting‚ many of the typical arguments for and against gun violence are again in public view. One contributing factor
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An Alternate Perspective on the Mythical West The topic of the American West has intrigued me throughout my life. The tales of cowboys and Indians‚ of the rugged individual and nature‚ has always sparked my interest. A land with such quixotic stories of adventure‚ the West has instilled itself in American history. The yarns and movies of the mythical frontier provide a perception to which I among many others have chosen to adopt at one time or another. This perception has been embedded in many
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memorable story about the end of the American Frontier in The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. It is a colorful story about a marshal‚ his new bride and an aging gunman. The end of the American Frontier is symbolized in the story with the advancement of the railroad system‚ the changes in Marshal Jack Potter‚ and the changes seen in gunman Scratchy Wilson. These points are expanded upon in the following paragraphs. The railway system coming from the east to the west and through Yellow Sky was symbolic
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"The Searchers" versus All the Pretty Horses The American west is one of our most revered eras‚ romanticized by numerous forms of media in the United States. Mediums of movies‚ books and television shows glorify the fiction of the old west. John Ford’s film "The Searchers" is an ideal example of this romanticized American West. Typically‚ an American Western story confines the women to home duties‚ having no original ideas or thoughts of their own‚ while the status of the hero is elevated by
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To begin with‚ a cowboy is a man who believes in God‚ country‚ family‚ and horse‚ which are all core American values. He is also a sharp shooter‚ who will answer your question the way he feels you should hear it rather than observe politically correctness. He’ll call things the way he sees them rather than exaggerate‚ because he knows deep inside what is true and what is not true which makes him incredibly honest. He is still extremely chivalrous‚ and deeply respects our legal system‚ police officers
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The Western Frontier The romanticism of the west employed the frontier as the outer edge of the wave meeting “between savagery and civilization.” To historians‚ a frontier is “is not a lining of marking the start of an empty place but a zone of interaction where two or more societies vie for the use of land.’ In the “frontier thesis”‚ Frederick Turner describes the frontier as “gradually peopled.” However‚ the congress in 1862 funded the transcontinental railroad‚ the union pacific‚ and
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