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Garvin, Period 6

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

THE OLD WEST

MIKAYLA rAE GARVIN

WOMEN IN THE OLD WEST

-Revolved around household duties, and raising the children.

-As they traveled farther west they began to take on the "men's duties".

-Took care of people on the long trips by making clothes, blankets and covers for the wagons.

-Cooked and washed clothes.

MYTH V. REALITY

-There was not a constant risk of shoot outs, it was actually more peaceful than modern day America.

-These assumptions have lasted so long because authors assume that the stories are true and come up with stories to back them up.

-People would "lay out the law" as common myths propose, but not by killing, but rather an understood way of behaving with a threat of consequences.

-In the 1840's miners actually began forming contracts to avoid unnecessary conflict.



HISTORY OF THE U.S. MARSHALS

-The U.S. Marshals were created about 200 years ago by the Judiciary Act of 1789.

-They were originally given authority to handle all lawful orders issued by the President, Congress, or judges.

-They are also responsible for the witness protection program.

-They were associated with those who wore ‘the star’ in Western Legends.

-In the West they were the only ones enforcing law.

FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS

-This town is where the famous “hanging of the judge” was.

-Marshals came to restore here to order, which was memorialized in True Grit.

-The fort was originally built to maintain peace with the surrounding Indians, and later became an important military supply.

-This was a major stop on the Trail of Tears.

-After the Civil War outlaws went to Fort Smith because it acted as a safe and central ground.

WILLIAM QUANTRILL

-In William Quantrill’s early life he traveled and made his money off of a life of gambling.

-He moved to Lawrence, Kansas where he was a teacher for a little over a year.

-Quantrill entered the Civil War as a Confederate, and later was the leader of the Quantrill Raiders, the most “savage fighters” of a new type of guerilla warfare.

-He was considered an ‘outlaw’.

-On August 21, 1863 he led four-hundred fifty raiders into Lawrence, Kansas and killed 183 men and boys, and set fire to the city. This was called the Lawrence Massacre, which led to a rebellion.

-After he died, many saw him as a “folk hero” of a western outlaw.