American Old West

endured this migration. The government issued the Homestead Act to convince people to move west, it granted 160 acres of land to settlers in Kansas. This prompted many to head west, including immigrants from around the world. However, moving was a very tedious task and was not an easy decision, but in hope for new economic opportunity many took all their belongings and family and made the decision to go to the west. In the novel, My Antonia by Willa Cather the author illustrates a glimpse of the hardships

Robber Barons were the stage masters in the shift from transcendentalism into progressivism. Scene. The film starts with a generous grant from Andrew Carnegie then transforms into humble means with the common transcendentalist tenets. God by showing the Church, Men with the graves and linage, and nature with it’s rolling green hills. Enter antagonist; the black behemoth sits upon its iron throne as it transcendents the brick chimneys and rains down soot on its subjects. This is not the transcendent

Marion Shepardson wrote a letter in 1949 that functions like a time capsule to what Poway looked like back then. In it she spoke about the trees and “little but pleasant breezes until November”. (Mary Shepardson 1.) She wrote about a lot of things but mostly about how how docile life was. The simple pleasures that Shepardson got from nature is are rare to find now. Poway is no longer a quaint little farming town, San Diego as a whole is slowly blossoming into a metropolitan area. Now more then ever

ex-appropriation, as well as satire to address his critics particularly those within the black community. Tyler the Creator was “born Tyler Gregory Okonma on March 6, 1991 in Los Angeles, California. Tyler was raised by a single mother and grew up in West 81st and New Hampshire near the border of Inglewood. Tyler never knew his father and didn’t grow up with any male figures in his life. Tyler’s mom provided him with what he needed and she made sure that her son was articulate.

where they are from. “True West” a play by Sam Shepard who addresses the issues of alienation from society, loss of identity and the deterioration of the family structure through the dysfunctional relationship between the two Austin and Lee. Throughout the story Lee, who comes to embody the Old West, and Austin, who attempts to represent the New West; later discovering how there is no escape from one’s true west. Secondly through this tension-filled relationship. “True West” comes to represent many

The image above does well to represent a well know icon of the American west. the Western cowboy is a unique aspect of western American history and has been since the emergence of the practice. the Oxford dictionary describes a cowboy as a " A man, typically one on a horseback, who herds and tends cattle, especially in the western US." One of the most essential part of a cowboy as you can see them on the street you know they are actually one, a pair of good leather boots with heels usually sharper

In the novel True Grit, Mattie Ross is a fourteen years old girl who has decided to “leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood” (9). The theme of revenge appears in a particular type of plot commonly found in western stories, which are called revenge stories. In this novel, the main

a large amount of people to come to American to start a new life. With an influx of people and the desire for personal space, America expanded under the jurisdiction of Manifest Destiny. American’s of that time began to move west of the Mississippi river into untamed, and isolated areas. There are many accounts of these migrations and stories of the untamed wilderness, but one of the classics is My Antonia by Willa Cather. Cather, an American migrant to the west herself, relates many of the experiences

population count of the United States. The promise of a new beginning and individualism promoted the expansion of the frontier. By 1890 the frontier was fully settled and it closed. Although the Western frontier was explosively settled in a short decade, American Indian settlement, transportation methods and expansion, and availability of desirable natural resources determined the success and sustenance of settlers. Since Europeans came to the United States, the existing population of natives has always

First published in 1844 by Henry G. Langley, New York, in Josiah Gregg’s book, Commerce of the Prairies: Or the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, During Eight Expeditions Across The Great Western Prairies, and a residence of nearly nine years in Northern Mexico, and published in his atlas in 1845, “Map of the Indian Territory Northern Texas and New Mexico Showing the Great Western Prairies” was the most accurate and reliable map of the southwestern plains during its time. This map is said to have been