In particular, we all appreciate and love to assimilate new information and gain our knowledge. However, textbooks do not enlighten the reader with exact information, since they do not reinforce a myriad number of precise topics and facts of historical events or any information in general. Such as, when desiring to ascertain an infinite amount of new information on historical events, in this case being on the American West during the mid and late 1800’s, not only can we gather information from textbooks and from Chapter 18 on “HIST4” (Volume 2. U.S History since 1865) by Kevin M. Schultz; but on sources as in old letters, government documents, articles, and speeches, therefore the sources have helped me have a better understanding on the American
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While reading the sources I learned more on the American West, a diversity of original facts, which otherwise I would have not known if I had only read what was in chapter eighteenth from the textbook. After reading fourth source, I well-read on the document of Nannie Tiffany Alderson on her experience of moving West with her husband, in the west she saw a “mixture of cultures contributed to the uniquely American character of the West”. As they explain Nannie Alderson’s story, the article published on “A Bride Goes West” (1942) describes the situation that when she met the lady next door known as “Connie” in the hotel, she was in shock and surprise when she found out about her “job” and “engagements”, Connie “was one of the most notorious women in the West”. Alderson’s point is that she was not use to seeing these types of situations in the east, as it had mentioned before the west was a mixture of cultures. This source gave us Alderson’s perspective and point of view. In the contrary, the textbook does not give information on prostitution in the West during the late eighteenth hundreds. Therefore, these sources informed me with new material and data, which I did not apprehend about, and was not on chapter eighteen from the
While reading the sources I learned more on the American West, a diversity of original facts, which otherwise I would have not known if I had only read what was in chapter eighteenth from the textbook. After reading fourth source, I well-read on the document of Nannie Tiffany Alderson on her experience of moving West with her husband, in the west she saw a “mixture of cultures contributed to the uniquely American character of the West”. As they explain Nannie Alderson’s story, the article published on “A Bride Goes West” (1942) describes the situation that when she met the lady next door known as “Connie” in the hotel, she was in shock and surprise when she found out about her “job” and “engagements”, Connie “was one of the most notorious women in the West”. Alderson’s point is that she was not use to seeing these types of situations in the east, as it had mentioned before the west was a mixture of cultures. This source gave us Alderson’s perspective and point of view. In the contrary, the textbook does not give information on prostitution in the West during the late eighteenth hundreds. Therefore, these sources informed me with new material and data, which I did not apprehend about, and was not on chapter eighteen from the