The Legend Of The West

Tombstone is a western film about a lawman named Wyatt Earp (portrayed by Kurt Russel) who is the protagonist in the story, along with his two brothers Virgil Earp (Sam Elliot) and Morgan Earp (Bill Paxton). With his brothers, Wyatt also has a trusty sidekick by the name of Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer) and they are feuding with the ruthless rebels of the time, known as the cowboys. The leader of the cowboy gang is an outlaw named Curly Bill Brocius (Powers Boothe) and he has a right-hand-man who might be even crazier and bloodthirsty who goes by

The separation is the first thing that a hero, like Wyatt Earp, goes through during his journey. Wyatt’s call to adventure begins when he moves to the town of Tombstone, Arizona. But like with plenty of heros Wyatt refused his call to begin his journey. Wyatt did this

Almost two decades ago, a film known as Tombstone was produced, featuring a star-studded cast. This action-packed western portrays the legendary feud between the Earp’s and the Clanton’s. For the most part I believe it to be a respectable movie containing a powerful storyline. This film portrays the life and times of the famous cowboy, Wyatt Earp, focusing on what led to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Tombstone provides a mixture of both fact and fiction, however I believe this film to be mainly accurate. After seeing this particular film, I have resulted in finding some of the accurate and incorrect scenes and facts. Just to name a couple of the films inaccuracies are the misleading facts about the

As the rise of the west began, there were many factors playing into the dominance of the western part of the world. Many changes happened over the years and these changes impacted the whole world. Some of these changes are economic, cultural, and demographic. As the west began to improve and develop, these changes helped the west establish the main dominance in the world. Ultimately, the main cause of the rise of the west was the factors of economic, cultural changes, and demographic changes impacted the society.

Determined to find a posse of cowboys who robbed a stagecoach, Earp set out in march of 1881. Crafting a deal to catch the outlaws, Earp promised $6,000 to a rancher named, Ike Clanton. As Clanton commonly dealt with the cowboys around Tombstone, he was worried Earp would say of his deeds. Drunk and out of his mind, Clanton was bragging to people that he was going to kill the Earp brothers. Things eventually escalated and on October 26,1881, the Earp brothers and Holliday, met Clanton, his brother Billy, Frank Mclaury and his brother, Tom, at the O.K Corral. What happened next is known as one of the greatest battles in the old west. It took only 30 seconds to kill Clanton and both of the McLaury brothers ; Earp was the only one unscathed

Clint Eastwood’s, Unforgiven, represents a “new” type of Western that defies the formula previously used to create traditional Western films. Unlike Shane, a film with a clear-cut threat to the community, endangering all homesteaders, a lack of defense, creating an unfair advantage to the threat imposed, and a true hero, one who saves the day and must willingly return to where he came from, Unforgiven is a Western that is told through a different formula. Eastwood tackles this revisionist piece and lacks the three basic components to any classic Western film – a threat, lack of defense, and a hero.

Many recognize the classic image of the cowboy in an old western movie: the fearless, stoic hero that stays calm in moments of crisis. In Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, readers witness the protagonist, John Grady Cole, attempt to revive this famous archetype. Beginning as early as when the first pilgrims came to the new continent, Americans have always had a desire to “settle” Native American lands. In the time that followed, the West became a sort of proving ground for the Europeans and their decedents. During the nineteenth century, the image of land being settled by men on horses, who literally took the law into their own hands through their shotguns, became pervasive in the American mind. By

The Westward Expansion has often been regarded as the central theme of American history, down to the end of the19th century and as the main factor in the shaping of American history. As Frederick Jackson Turner says, the greatest force or influence in shaping American democracy and society had been that there was so much free land in America and this profoundly affected American society. Motives After the revolution, the winning of independence opened up the Western country and was hence followed by a steady flow of settlers to the Mississippi valley. By 1840, 10 new western states had been added to the Federal union. The frontier line ran through Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas on the western side

“Chasing the Lamb,” by Russell Rowland is an essay about the time he spent during his teen years working on a ranch. It was on the ranch that he learned about hard work, perseverance, and what it means to be a community. Jim Harrison tells of his experience in “Geopiety.” Harrison, like Rowland, writes from Montana, and though he believes Westerners are still around he believes they have a violent past. In “No Direction Home,” Charles Bowden writes about his experience of the west. Living close to the Mexican boarder his perception is much different from both Rowland and Harrison. Bowden explains his belief that the West is “not in our minds but under our feet” (Bowden 265). Each author has had his own experience and each

Web essay 4: The West There are many people that think of the land west of the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean known simply as “The West” as just another part of the United States. The real story of how the western frontier as we know it today manifested is a truly magnificent one. It is one of many different perspectives filled with war, courage, religious freedom, and the bloodshed of many for the fulfillment of dreams or the perseverance of ones right to their land and culture. It was the center of the universe for the Indians who were first to inhabit the land and a promise of riches and power for explorers, settlers, and missionaries who set out to make the West their own. The two sections I paid particular attention to in my research were The People and The Empire upon the Trails.

Another famous gunfight Wyatt Earp was known for was killing Curly Bill while leaving Arizona. Wyatt Earp was told

The Navajo Indians emulated the pueblo. The shed their animal skin clothing for cotton and learned quickly how to farm. These people settled in between the Rio Grande and the Grand Canyon. They herded sheep and grew corn in the valleys. They were a peaceful group of people, and were one with their surroundings.

In Samuel P. Huntington’s article “The West: Unique, Not Universal,” he addresses his audience with a very controversial question: Is Western Culture universal or unique? Huntington elaborately opens up this question with research and examples to explain and persuade readers that the West will never be a universal culture for all, but rather a unique culture that will be accepted by those who appreciate it. For decades now, historians and scholars have debated with one another to determine who is right and wrong. However, from a handful of articles from different scholars, Samuel Huntington’s statement that the West is unique rather than universal is supported and even further elaborated on by these particular sources. A common understanding between all the sources, that must be noted, is that a civilization’s culture is not comprised of material goods but rather their culmination of their religion(s), values, language(s) and traditions. While although there are scholars out their that negate the West is unique, a large amount of scholars still argue and strengthen Huntington’s argument that the West has unique and exclusive characteristics that make them distinctive and rare.

The Classic Western genre is dead. Western films created now are not considered Classic Western, but are instead categorized in the Post-Western form. This happened because the overuse of filmic codes in the Western genre eventually led to predictability in the films. These “genre film cycles” occur because of the overuse of predictability. Film cycles are when a genre and its conventions become overused to the point of death to that specific genre. For example, if the film The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966) were shown in a theater today people wonder why they were watching it, because they already knew what to expect from the typical western codes, such as good guys versus bad guys, gunfights, horse chases, Indians, frontier land,

Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind The Legend is a biography about the wild and crazy life of Wyatt Earp written by Casey Tefertiller. This book tells you a lot about Wyatt Earp and his family’s life and all the good and rough times they had. It tells you about the wild west and how they managed to live a good life and support their family. It tells you about some of the big arrests that Earp and his posse made. It tells you all the big events in Earp’s and his family’s lives. It tells you how Wyatt Earp died and how all his close friends and acquaintances tried as hard as they could to keep his spirit alive in the west.