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Billy The Kid - Wild West Outlaw (Crime Documentary)

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Billy The Kid - Wild West Outlaw (Crime Documentary) William H. Bonney (born William Henry McCarty, Jr. c. November 23, 1859 - c. July 14, 1881), better known as Billy the Kid and also known as Henry Antrim, was a 19th-century American gunman who participated in the Lincoln County War and became a frontier outlaw in the American Old West.

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Most famous bounty killer in the wild west.

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The Native Americans - A Documentary Film

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The Native Americans - A Documentary Film Native Americans who live within the boundaries of the current United States (consisting of the indigenous folks of Alaska and Hawaii) are maded of many, unique people, bands and ethnic groups, several of which make it through as intact, sovereign countries.

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Outlaws were criminals in the wild west, who no longer were protected by the government. Mostly the outlaws were criminals that robbed banks, kill people and people that weren’t obeying the law. The outlaws were wanted man for their crimes against the government. Mostly the outlaws slept on the open prairie in tents under the starlight in a group. During the day they would attempt to raid stagecoaches with money or cowboys that are passing by, mostly they did this by ambushing their victims. There are some world famous outlaws that are still remembered today, like Billy the Kid and Jessy James.

The outlaws were wanted death or alive and often a large reward was given for the person who could capture them.  The people who search for outlaws and attempt to catch them death or alive, with risk of dying are called bounty hunters. The bounty hunters live on the rewards they get from delivering outlaws to the sheriff, but that wasn’t that easy. The bounty hunters were often alone and had to face the outlaws on their own, therefore they had to be very skilled gunmen. When the bounty hunter catches the outlaw(s) and delivers him or her to the authorities , the outlaw(s) will then be hanged or have to serve jail time.

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The Gold Rush was a period during the time of the Wild West, in which many people, that were looking for a future of wealth and fortune came to California. The Gold Rush began when James W. Marshall found gold in Coloma, California. This news was widely spread in a short amount of time. The news of gold brought 300.000 people from all over the US and abroad to California to look for their fortune.

The people who came to mine the gold were called ‘’forty-niners’’, this refers to the year that the first gold was found in California. These forty-niners collected as much gold as they could from streams and riverbeds by using a technique called panning. For this technique they used a pan in, which the gold would sink to an uneven surface and would stick to the bottom.

The effects that the Gold Rush had on California were enormous. San Francisco grew from a sloppy 200 residents to a staggering 36.000 residents in just 6 years.  There had to be made laws in order to keep the population under control, because in the beginning of the Gold Rush there were no laws that the forty-niners had to obey regarding property rights in the gold fields.

On the other hand the Gold Rush was not only a positive event. The Native-American population was badly disadvantaged during the Gold Rush. They were forced out of their lands by the forty-niners in order to mine the land for gold. The mining has also caused environmental harm, because of the many trees that were cut down and riverbeds that had been shifted by digging.

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The California Gold Rush cartoon 1849 (The Wild West)

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The cowboys were not the people who fought against the law as one might think, this were the outlaws. Cowboys were hard working people, who held huge herds of cattle on the vast prairies in the wild West. It was a very dangerous job, because the cattle, which mostly consisted of cows and horses had to be maintained. The cowboys could easily be trampled, robbed on the prairie by outlaws or killed by Native-Americans.

The cowboys lived in houses that were called bunkhouses in the middle of the prairie, therefore the cowboys had little possessions and few friends. Many cowboys are seen as the best horseback riders in history of the USA. They had to be good at horseback riding, because the cattle had to be herd from a horse in order to keep up with them. To catch the cattle the cowboys used another skill called roping. They use a lasso and catch the cattle by lassoing the rope around the neck of the cattle and thereby catching them.

The clothing of the cowboy was very important and was not only worn because it looked awesome. From the hat they could drink water and the jeans they worn were covert with chaps, which are pieces of leather that protected the legs of the cowboy.  The last unmistakable piece of equipment is the gun. The gun was mostly used to shoot down a cow when it was badly injured, but it was also used as protection against the environment.

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The Native-American people or American Indians as they are sometimes called are the indigenous people of the USA and came to parts of the USA around 15.000 BC. The name Indian Americans originated from the fact that Columbus, who discovered America thought he had arrived at a part of East Asia and therefore he named the native people Indians.

The Native-Americans lived in more than a hundred different tribes, which the Cherokee, Navajo and the Apache are the most famous of. The Native Americans were highly religious people and worshiped many gods. They worshiped these gods by preforming rituals, which included dancing, singing and smoking herbs. The Native-Americans were hunters in heart and soul and were fearsome for their remarkable combat skills and horseback riding.

The Native-American tribes were more and more attacked by the American army during the period of the Wild-West, all for the land they were living on. Many Americans were afraid of the Native-Americans, because they were seen as a fearsome people, who scalped heads and killed Americans. Many Native-American tribes went extinct through genocide and by means of the common cold. The common cold wasn’t a disease that was known to the Native-Americans during the time that the first colonists arrived in America, this caused many deaths amongst the Native-American population.