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- Reasons for moving West: family ties, adventure, health, & economic opportunity. - Women with families: raising children, running household (food processing, candle & soap making, spinning, weaving, knitting, etc.)
- Established schools & churches. Occasionally warding off Indian attacks.
- Unmarried women (single, divorced, or widowed):
- Homestead Act of 1862 allowed unmarried women to try homesteading alone.
- Before Homestead Act, female teachers migrated because they could make better salaries than they could back east.
- Many women were enthusiastic about pioneering & interested in self independence.
- Domestic service demand allowed women with no special training could easily find work.
- Western women had large range of skills: farm laborers, bakers, nurses, midwives, seamstresses, postal clerk, telegraphers, writers, musicians, & actresses. Newspaper work also provided opportunities for women to establish national reputations.


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WOMEN IN THE OLD WEST

(1865 - 1890)
- Reasons for moving West: family ties, adventure, health, & economic opportunity. - Women with families: raising children, running household (food processing, candle & soap making, spinning, weaving, knitting, etc.)
- Established schools & churches. Occasionally warding off Indian attacks.
- Unmarried women (single, divorced, or widowed):
- Homestead Act of 1862 allowed unmarried women to try homesteading alone.
- Before Homestead Act, female teachers migrated because they could make better salaries than they could back east.
- Many women were enthusiastic about pioneering & interested in self independence.
- Domestic service demand allowed women with no special training could easily find work.
- Western women had large range of skills: farm laborers, bakers, nurses, midwives, seamstresses, postal clerk, telegraphers, writers, musicians, & actresses. Newspaper work also provided opportunities for women to establish national reputations.


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FORT SMITH

Arkansas
- Fort was a simple log blockade that had hospitals, shops, barracks, magazines, and more located inside.
- In the novel, True Grit, Tom Chaney & Frank Ross go to Fort Smith to buy horses. Chaney kills Ross and robs the body.
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VIOLENCE IN THE OLD WEST

Reality Vs. Myth
- Much more peaceful than cities today.
- Fact that everyone was armed meant that everyone had relatively an equal amount of power. This minimized violence.
- Private agencies donned "Land Clubs", established by settlers, laid out laws that would protect and define property rights in land.
- Social ostracism was used effectively against those who violated the rules.
- Establishing property rights this way minimized violence and disputes.
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U.S. MARSHALS

Importance in the West
- Created by First Congress in Judiciary Act of 1789.
- Extensive authority to support federal courts, Congress, or the president.
- Their motto: "Justice, Integrity, and Service".
- In many places, marshals were the only available law enforcement. Outlaws took advantage of towns not yet structured enough to provide own authority.
5.

WILLIAM QUANTRILL

& Quantrill's Raiders
- Responsible for Lawrence Massacre, where everything was robbed and burned down to the ground. Took place in pro-Union town of Lawrence, Kansas.
- Quantrill (1837 - 1865) Confederate leader during Civil War.
- His army of men wrote people who were devoted to his causes and Confederate beliefs.

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