The wave of violence that we see in the film is inaccurately represented according to Richard White, It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own where he states that “during the peak years of cattle towns, the average number of homicides was only 1.5 a year from each town.” However, the films representation is the opposite since the narrator depicts murder rates higher than modern day Los Angeles or New York and the opening scene is of the film is a gun fight which results in murders including a catholic priest which is caused by the cowboys. Another example of this exaggerated violence occurs in both films. In My Darling Clementine when Earp and his brother first arrive in town an Indian man named Indian Charlie is
By 1881 Tombstone had a population of 4000, making it Arizona’s largest town and the biggest community between New Orleans and San Francisco. Tombstone would find itself full of lawlessness; outlaws and soiled doves would soon outnumber the law abiding citizens. With the town becoming out of control Wyatt Earp was called in to bring the law back into the town and clean up the mean streets of Tombstone. He brought along his brothers, Virgil and Morgan, and was soon followed by Wyatt’s friend Doc Holliday. The worst of them all were the Clanton Clan also known as The Cowboys, and run by Billy Clanton.
This event occurred on December 29, 1890.The U.S Cavalry had gathered local Native Americans, shot and killed innocent Native American men, women, and children. The shots were fired because of misunderstanding of culture and ignorance. Another fact that stood out was the truth about Christopher Columbus. The Columbus that was introduced to us in grade school, is so different than the one he really was. Mr. Columbus killed and raped Native Americans because in his eye they were less than humans.
In 1859-60 an unknown explorer went up the Arkansas River and found gold in it’s sand and gravel. Explorers, miners, railroad expansionists, farmers and ranchers flooded the area. Railroad pushed west to serve thousands of miners. The Denver & Rio Grande Western battled for the Royal Gorge route up the Arkansas, establishing Salida in late May 1880. Economics: Salida is the service, supply, and tourism center for the Upper Arkansas Valley.
The first wave of Chinese Immigration was spurred by the Gold Rush of 1849 in California. Similar to other foreign gold-seeker, those Chinese immigrants came across the Pacific Ocean looking for Gold. Also, in 1850s, there was a civil war called TaiPing Rebellion going on in China that was tearing the country apart. Many people survived from
Their captain, Lander McNelly is outwitted by the bandits and their leader, John King Fisher, and is involved in multiple shootouts and gun fights and looses a lot of his men. This film incorporates all the stereotypical western images people have come to know and expect from Western films.
One conflict was the gold rush of 1849, where some gold was found in what is now California, and millions of settlers went west to get rich on gold, and in the process fought with the Spanish who lived out there, and then killed many Indians who also settled in that land. After California was bleed dry, the settlers thought maybe the neighboring states would have gold, which lead to another gold rush in Colorado in 1850, Idaho and Montana in the 1860, and Arizona and Nevada during the 1870's. Even though gold really wasn't found in those states other minerals where found like silver in those states, which made the West one of the worlds largest reservoirs of precious metals. Plus the Indians where pushed aside for the railroad expansions, the railroads where away to expand west and do it quickly, as opposed to traveling by horse and wagon, or by walking even in some cases. In most cases, the people who traveled West for precious metals would usually travel back
1 Miners, Railroads and Cattlemen In March 1848 a Californian landowner first discovered gold in a stream. Before long the news of this discovery was sweeping through California. By the middle of the summer a gold rush had begun and by the spring of 1849 people from all over the world were rushing to California to look for gold. In 1848 its population was 15.000 people, by 1852 the population was more than 250.000. In the next twenty years gold discoveries attracted fortune-seekers also to other parts of the far West.
During this time the railroad was known to be the only means of transporting gold and other valuable shipments. In 1858, Capt. McClellan that in his career led the North Army requested the help of Pinkerton to investigate the theft of wines and small sundry thefts of beggars which happened along the railroads. In 1861, there were rumors that President Elect Lincoln would be assassinated while passing through Baltimore transferring from one train to another. One of Pinkerton’s most trusted men along with other operatives were setup in various locations along the route to protect him while traveling to his inauguration.
History of Police 1 History of Police Geraldine E. Burch-Mack CJA/214 18 NOV 12 Michael Daniels History of Police 2 Sir Robert Peel on American policing In the 1800s Sir Robert Peel was in search for a police force that would protection citizens, enforce laws, and fight crime. Peel established the Metropolitan Police force around 1829; even though the force was not well- known they were the first to prove a very successful crime decrease in London. In 1857 cities in the UK had to form their own police departments, using Peel’s successful ideas and nine principles. For peels heroic act there are police departments across the nation today enforcing laws, protecting, and serving citizen, and apprehend offenders. Sir Robert Peel has provided solutions to the abuse and mistreat of people, and evidence of society, his plan may not fixes all the crime problems but has contribute so much more prevention over the years especial with his nine principles.