American Old West

I had read episode one and episode two. The American Old West has always been the center of a romanticized view people had in the 1800 's from all over the world. The West is an eight-part television documentary regrading the American Old West. In it, the West is presented as a vast and beautiful landscape where many people from different parts of the world come to purse a prosperous life. A new world for some and the center of the universe for others. Stretching from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean it is dubbed "the most extraordinary land on Earth". Many people had come to the West from distant lands, the Spanish moving from Mexico, the French and the British moving from the South and the Russians as well as the Chinese from the East.…

If I could spend one day in the shoes of someone in a setting foreign to me, it would without question be with a constituent of the American Old West. Living in this time period would be gratifying because I appreciate how people fulfilled their share of the work in the community. This includes judges, merchants, and farm managers. Everybody had a role defined through their work. There was togetherness as well as individualism and freedom. Preferably, I would be a law enforcer experiencing…

One common misconception about the Old West was if it was violent or nonviolent. Because cowboys, Indians, railroad workers, settlers, and soldiers played out their disputes on the Great Plains. Which led to different beliefs if the West was violent or not. So was The Old West really violent? The Old West was located on the Great Plains (The Great American Dessert). It was anything West of Mississippi and was between the early 1860s and 1890s. There were Plain Indians and new players who resided…

the land. The old west was desired as home by newly freed slaves, cowboys, native americans, and young men in search of greater fortunes. Towns were set up along the railroads for construction crews who were “very male, very single, and relatively young”(background). With a lack of women in the old west these young men were left to their own devices surrounded by other testosterone driven men, making violence much more common. One example of this was a town called Benton in Wyoming. It was a…

Jane Tompkins’s West of Everything is an energetic and lively account of the most beloved and legendary American genre—The Western. Western films and novels have become a large part of many American’s lives and continues to influence filmmaking to this day. People from all over the world visit western states to have what they think is the cowboy experience. West of Everything expresses a heavy concern with the role of gender in the genre, however, and points out that it is a male dominated…

What do you imagine about classic western style? Is it a cowboy with extreme action performance and masculinity? Or is it old good days and farming a big land with a horse? Probably, you imagine everything what you see on a classic movie and typical western shows. American history shows Americans’ hope to our future. The best way to learn the foundation of this country is going to historical museum. Buffalo Bill Museum is one of the museums where people see the historical western artifacts and…

While discovering the west, pioneers encountered difficulties which authors then used in their stories leading to the idea of the frontiersman. We're still learning whether or not the many myths were insight into the reality or merely an idea of how frontiersman and the West are portrayed. Many of these myths or ideas are what aided in the understanding of American history. In the later half of the nineteenth century, the "mythic frontiersman" commonly was described as full of hope, righteous,…

genre they think is dominant in, “The Wild Bunch” (e.g. crime drama, romance, thriller, drug movie, dark comedy, etc.). The cinematic clues I’ve based my decision on is a subgenre of film known as the "Revisionist Western”. I’m sure you are asking yourself; how does this film that I chose enact the genre it is supposed to represent and how does it subvert it? Well, according to thescriptlab.com, “Western Film is a genre that revolves around stories primarily set in the late 19th century in the…

love for the particular time period. During the specific time labeled the American Old West individuals married for wealth, status, and social acceptance.This formation was identified as a way for form self preservation and self gain through social acceptability. In the “Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” the story illustrates the internal struggles to break away from social standards and to find love without the application of social interference. Potter wants his wife to see him as a man first. He…

correct of what the real lives these women had. For example in chapter one Riley quotes Historian Emerson Hough who claims, “The chief figure of the American West…is not the long-haired fringed-legged man riding a raw boned pony, but the gaunt and sad-faced woman sitting on the front seat of the wagon, following her lord where he might lead…That was the great romance of all America-the woman in the sunbonnet.” What a great quote to rustle the feathers of the Historians that came up with the…