Cowboy adventures throughout the Wild West

 

Cowboy adventures throughout the Wild West

Wild West

The Wild West refers to the period from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to about 1900.

It tells the stories of pioneers, immigrants, cattle kings, gold miners, railway trains and trains, cowboys, Indians, criminals and slingshots.

Famous Wild West actors include Whyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Bat Masterson, Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane and Belle Starr.

After the first European settlers arrived in the United States, many headed west in search of new life and the promise of prosperity.

Western countries donated land, good agricultural land and new wealth opportunities that could be created in the East.

Two-Box Town Tamer

Thomas James Smith, also known as "Bear River Smith" (12 June 1830 - 2 November 1870), was an attorney for the American Wild West and governor of the cattle town, Abilene, Kansas.

Smith was a quiet lawyer with a bad reputation from New York City, where he worked as a police officer.

While serving as a New York City police officer in 1868, Smith was involved in the accidental murder of a 14-year-old boy, after which he resigned.

He has also worked as a lawyer in the small towns of Wyoming, Bear River and Kit Carson, Colorado.

Abilene Marshal

Abilene, Kansas, was a wild boar town with lots of salons, brothels and lawlessness.

Beginning in 1867, crime rates soared that murder and shooting were commonplace.

Tom Smith was commissioned as Deputy Chief of Staff of the United States Army to bring law and order to Abilene in 1869 and insisted that he could apply the law by using punches instead of guns.

Shortly after taking the reins, Smith defeated both of them, "Big Hank" Hawkins and "Wyoming Frank" drove them out of Abilene, after beating them both at once using only his hands.

Smith also introduced a law that says "no guns on the city limits" that are less popular.

For the next two months, Smith survived two assassination attempts.

His reputation as well as his frequent arrests of law-abiding citizens earned him the respect and admiration of Abilene's citizens.

On November 2, 1870, Smith and a temporary deputy went to hand over a letter authorizing Andrew McConnell and Moses Miles about the murder of another Abilene citizen.

The suspects were found 10km outside Abilene where gunfire erupted.

Smith suffered serious chest injuries and his deputy fled the scene.

Moses Miles then took an ax and cut Tom Smith.

McConnell and Miles were abducted and arrested in March 1871.

Andrew McConnell received 12 years in prison and Moses Miles spent 16 years released.

Tom Smith was buried in Abilene, and a large tombstone was erected in honor of his service at Abilene.

Smith was replaced as a shawl by the famous lawyer and gunman "Wild Bill" Hickock.

Ronald Reagan, as the host of the western television series, Death Valley Days, starred Smith in the 1965 episode "No Gun behind His Badge".

Blackfeet Indians

In 1809, Colter met John Potts, a former member of Lewis and the Clark Expedition to catch a beaver for a profit on the fur trade along the Jefferson River in what is now Montana where they met several hundred -Blackfeet Indians while traveling. boat.

Blackfeet said they had come ashore.

Colter did so, was stripped of his weapons, and stripped naked.

Pott refused and was shot and wounded.

Potts then killed one of the Indian warriors and soon was filled with arrows shot by Indians on the beach.

His body was then taken to the shore and cut into pieces.

Run-For-Life

After Blackfeet talked about killing Colter, the king decided to let him escape to save his life and be chased by the Indians with spears.

They took him to a nearby plain and gave him a starting point of three hundred and four hundred feet.

Colter, knew he had to skip Blackfeet if he had a chance to survive.

He began to flee for his life across the plains and had outpaced the Indians except for one who was almost twenty meters behind him.

Determined to avoid being thrown in by the expected spear, he simply stopped, turned around, and stretched out his arms.

The shocked India, tired of running, fell when he tried to throw his spear.

Colter suddenly grabbed the spear and killed him, then continued running with the other Indians following in the distance.

Colter arrived at Madison River, five miles from his starting point, and hid under driftwood near the beaver lodge.

You could hear the sound of Blackfeet, looking up and down the river to find him.

He waited until evening, then went out and walked completely naked and snowy, heading for the merchant castle.

Colter became weak from hunger and fatigue, living only on the roots and barks and had bloody feet because of the cactus thorns that pierced his feet.

Miraculously, Colter arrived at Manuel Lisa's Fort within seven days to greet his friends.

A few weeks later when he regained his strength, he returned to the Blackfeet that winter to collect the traps he had left behind.

John Colter lived another five years after his mysterious escape, killed by jaundice in Missouri, where he lay in an unmarked grave.

Alexander Todd

A former clerk, Alexander Todd, had a gold rush, so he traveled to California in search of his treasure.

He soon realized that he did not have the physical strength to endure the grueling work of the gold fields on the frozen rivers of Mother Lode (a rich source of iron or minerals).

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