American Old West

"True Grit” is about a fourteen-year-old girl trying to bring justice to the man who killed her father. She hires a sheriff named Rooster to help her. Through characterization, setting, and law enforcement, Charles Portis in “True Grit” sets an accurate portrayal of the time period known as the old west to create a more riveting story. Mattie is a fourteen-year-old girl, who has the responsibilities of an adult, which was expected of people that age in this time period. “[Mattie] kept his books

My historical figure is Jesse James. Jesse is from the Old Western time period. Jesse is a notorious bank robber. He is viewed by many as the American Robin Hood. There are few who don’t know his name. He is arguably the most known and influential criminal known to Old Western American history. September 5, 1847, in Kearney, Missouri marked the birth of Jesse James. Jesse was brought up by a very renowned farming family. He and his brother Frank received a great education. His father Robert James

12 Describe the composition and structure of the labor force in the West. How was it shaped by racial prejudice? 13 What were the principal gold and silver boom areas from 1858 to 1874? What other mineral extraction became economically important? Topaz if you went deep enough but it took a lot of time and money

In many Western films, the roles of courage, women, integrity, community , individualism, Indians, landscape, and the wilderness were often presented in a similar thematic way, for the directors and their audiences shared a common view of the Old West and shared the same basic values. Courage, integrity, and individualism were greatly admired, women were admirable creatures but needed to be rescued quite frequently, and communities needed to be united in order to survive hostile Indians and an

commonly known that the American Wild West took place in the 1860’s and dragged on all the way to the early 1900’s. Through this time period there were gunslingers, prostitutes, and overall just a rough life for the people. They had to make money in any way they could, but movies about the Wild West often get that wrong. They glorify it, and make it seem like this time period was the best and easy to live in, but in reality nothing was the way that these films make it seem. The Wild West in the 1860’s is

the noon train with his gang, seeking revenge. Marshal Kane tries to round up a posse of the townspeople but none of them will stand with him, even his deputy hides at home with his wife when the Marshal comes to him for help. Only a 14-year-old, a half blind old man and the Marshal's Quaker pacifist wife make any efforts to help him. Amy urges him to flee the town with her and he refuses choosing instead to face Frank singlehandedly. Hearing the sound of gunfire from on board the train, Amy chooses

Western and cowboy movies are two of the oldest types of movie genres ever made. People have long had a fascination with the wild west and its lawlessness and often like to revisit it by watching these kinds of movies. So many have been made that at times it might feel like nothing new can be added to these stories and an attempt to do so is just revisiting old hat. The Magnificent Seven makes an attempt at not only adding to the lineage of western movies but also retells a story of a movie considered

During the mid-1900s, the American West was just starting to develop and take shape. At this time, settlers would come from the Eastern United States and assimilate with the other westerners. One possible scenario was told in the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence which was directed by John Ford. In it, an Easterner by the name of Ransom Stoddard recalls a time he was beaten and robbed by an outlaw named Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) as he initially makes his way towards the Western Frontier

The Wild West lasted throughout the 1800’s. It is what most people think about when they think of American. Many famous people came out of the Wild West. Most of them were outlaws. The infamous outlaw of the west known as Billy the Kid was born in a poor Irish neighborhood on New York City’s East side (A). Before he died at the age of 21, he killed 27 people (A). Billy’s original name was Henry McCarty (A). At about 1865, Billy and his brother traveled to Indiana with their mother and step-father

Post-Civil War, the American people began to focus their energies on settling the West. Encouraged by the government, which had passed “a series of laws dating to 1796 designed to facilitate the transfer of land from the public domain to private ownership”, many common people attempted to make a new start, picking everything up and moving out west–and I numbered among them (Brands 216). For us, the most useful of those laws was likely the Homestead Act of 1862. It promised “free land to ordinary