Chief Big Foot and his followers were on their way to the Pine Ridge Reservation in hopes that they could persuade those at the stronghold to surrender. The group had stopped along Wounded Knee Creek, and James W. Forscyth intercepted them during the previous night. At daybreak, Forscyth ordered the Indians to surrender their weapons and move from the "zone of military operations" to trains that would take them away. The medicine man of the tribe, Yellow Bird, began urging the tribe to defy the demands of Forscyth, and one Indian, Black Coyote, raised his newly bought rifle and declared that he would not give it up. When Forscyth's troops surrounded Black Coyote to disarm the man, Black Coyote's gun fired off and caused the troops to fire their weapons at other Indians, thus triggering the massacre.
In June 1855 after the death of his father Ned was forced to leave school to help assist his grandfather James Quinn with the family cattle in North Victoria. He also got a job and became the family’s main breadwinner and started taking jobs as a timber cutter and rural worker to try and provide for his mother and younger siblings. Ned’s family was very poor and only had a small plot of land. The soil was bad quality which caused Ned to steal horses and cattle to survive. However despite this he educated himself and was known for his good use of language and sense of humor.
In the winters the cowboys would ride down to Texas then up to Canada for work and come back with their pay waiting for them. They would drive cattle all the way across the country, leaving dead cattle and nurturing the young calves back to health to have as many as possible to sell at the auction. The cowboys would have deep conversations to keep themselves occupied while they were gone for so many months. Subjects such as things they haven’t experienced yet, love, meaningful relationships, and children would be the main topics discussed while away. Once returning from a long journey and showing the audience the hard work of a cowboy, they discover that the pay that they should have received for working all winter was cut down to just one month’s pay.
On the Pine Ridge Reservation on June 26, 1975 a shoot-out resulting in the death of two FBI agents was soon to be the responsibility of Leonard Peltier, a well know organization leader of the American Indian Movement. People from Pine Ridge, South Dakota asked Peltier along with other AIM members to camp out on the ranch to protect them form violence. The two FBI agents followed a pickup truck onto jumping bull’s ranch. Instantly families became alarmed and thought they were being attacked. When shots were fired the AIM members shot back to protect the people.
Texas Rangers and the Popular History of the American West The movie Texas Rangers (2001) is a good representation of a popular history type of the American West, because it represents the Western frontier as being ridden with cowboys and bandits all fighting for land and cattle, having shootouts and brawls to protect or disturb the justice of Texas. In the film Lincoln Rogers Dunnison embarks on a journey to be a Texas Ranger after a group of bandits terrorizing the state of Texas, stealing cattle, and killing anyone in their way, murders his entire family. Dunnison is accepted to become a ranger with his friend George Durham. All of the new recruits of the rangers are ill prepared and do not know the trouble ahead of them. 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.
Since the vice president was Andrew Johnson he became presindent.12 days after the famous assassination on April 26, 1865 at 2 a.m. about twenty five men arrived at the farm that Booth was at along with his accomplice. Jack Garrett was one of the boys that lived there. He came out to tell the soldiers that the men they looking for are in the barn. The soldiers demanded that Booth come out and surrender but Booth says to come and get him. The soldiers light the barn on fire and one shoots Booth and the side of the neck.
Virginia DeJohn Anderson, “King Philip’s Herds: Indians, Colonists and the Problem of livestock in Early New England” In this article Ms. Anderson talks about how livestock (mostly swine) played a critical role toward King Philip’s War of 1675-76. How hostilities, settlers free ranging livestock wandered into native villages and affected them and how the Indians responded to theses encroachments. English colonist imported thousands of cattle, swine, sheep, and horses because they considered livestock essential to their survival. But the animals caused problems to subsistence practices, land use, property rights and political authority. Indians did not want to own domestic animals since livestock husbandry did not fit easily with native practices, the adoption of livestock would alter women’s lives by affecting the traditional division of labor since women were mainly responsible of agriculture production.
He soon began being a prospector at the Pikes Peak gold rush in 1859. At age 14, he joined the Pony Express; he fit exactly what the advertising position called for, “skinny, expert riders willing to risk death daily.” He got this job after his father was shot and killed, during a riot to make Kansas a free state. He was left man of the house as a young teenager, having to support his family. Buffalo Bill served in the American Civil War, and in 1867, he began what he is widely
In 1914 the United States Congress approved the funding to destroy wolves. Many of the Government bounty hunters decided to help farmers to protect there livestock from the destructive creatures, and ever since there has been a chain reaction in the environment from coyote populations increasing to specific types of vegetation on the edge of extinction . we should bring back the Mexican wolf for a few reasons. Like the affect of the absents of the Mexican wolf for over sixty years. The Mexican wolf has been missing from landscape for over sixty years.
(Economist,1) All because the on going battle to have horses legally considered companion animals instead of live stock. The United State Department of Agriculture has been “stingy” (McGraw, 1) to give out any information on horse slaughter. (Economist,1) except to say “Horses are livestock, same as cows and pigs” (McGraw,1) Many people around the country beg to differ. It can probably be agreed by most that horses are owned for recreational purposes, generally not for work any longer. However, it can be found in the far western states that horses still work dawn to dusk, the long hours of cowboys.