The Importance Of Settling In The West
Emmanuella Abankwah January 24,2017
Settling in the West The Cowboy Era came about through the herding of cattles. Cowboys were the image of courageous, spirited horsemen living a dangerous life. These men played an important role in the settling of the west. Ranching was a big industry and cowboys helped to run the ranches. They herded cattle, repaired fences and buildings, and took care of the horses. The days of the open range were over. From the late nineteenth century cattle were kept on enclosed ranches and farmed in much smaller quantities. The invention of the barbed wire meant that large areas could be fenced properly. Cattles were now enclosed on ranches and no longer roamed the plains. As a result, cowboys were no longer
needed. A new group of civilization took over where men and women lived on ranches. Not any one writer or time period defined the American cowboy of 1920s literature. Rather, the cowboy hero of 1920s literature represented both a deviation from the traditional dime store novel heroes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as well as an illustration of their influences. People from the West were usually cowboys or prostitutes. Many women were widows after the Civil War so they went to the west to find husbands. Women from impoverished countries are auctioned off—voluntarily or involuntarily—to desperate men with first-world passports promising a better life. Mail order brides as they called it was an industry guised for human trafficking.
Settling in the West The Cowboy Era came about through the herding of cattles. Cowboys were the image of courageous, spirited horsemen living a dangerous life. These men played an important role in the settling of the west. Ranching was a big industry and cowboys helped to run the ranches. They herded cattle, repaired fences and buildings, and took care of the horses. The days of the open range were over. From the late nineteenth century cattle were kept on enclosed ranches and farmed in much smaller quantities. The invention of the barbed wire meant that large areas could be fenced properly. Cattles were now enclosed on ranches and no longer roamed the plains. As a result, cowboys were no longer
needed. A new group of civilization took over where men and women lived on ranches. Not any one writer or time period defined the American cowboy of 1920s literature. Rather, the cowboy hero of 1920s literature represented both a deviation from the traditional dime store novel heroes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as well as an illustration of their influences. People from the West were usually cowboys or prostitutes. Many women were widows after the Civil War so they went to the west to find husbands. Women from impoverished countries are auctioned off—voluntarily or involuntarily—to desperate men with first-world passports promising a better life. Mail order brides as they called it was an industry guised for human trafficking.