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The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
The James–Younger Gang commits the first train robbery in the history of the West by derailing a locomotive of the Rock Island Line west of Adair, Iowa and stealing $3,000 from the express safe and passengers on board. [149] Dec "My Western Home", a poem by Dr. Brewster M. Higley, is first published in an issue of the Smith County Pioneer.
Wild West Chronicles is an American television series, which airs on INSP. The historical docudrama series follows the life of Bat Masterson, a newspaper reporter that traveled the frontier during the late 1800s to uncover stories about the Wild West. The show stars Jack Elliott as Masterson, with the first show airing in 2020. [1]
Kidnapping by Indians is a 1899 British silent short Western film, made by the Mitchell and Kenyon film company, [1] shot in Blackburn, England. [2] It is believed to be the first dramatic film in the Western genre, [ 3 ] pre-dating Edwin S. Porter 's The Great Train Robbery by four years.
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories is a 1973 collection of short stories by Doris Betts. [1] The collection was nominated for a 1974 National Book Award. [2] The story "The Ugliest Pilgrim" was adapted into the short film “Violet,” which won Best Live Action Short at the 54th Academy Awards. [3] It was later adapted into the ...
The American West (formerly titled The West) [1] is a limited-event American television docu-series detailing the history of the Western United States in the period from 1865 to 1890. The series was executively produced by Robert Redford , Stephen David and Laura Michalchyshyn with Sundance Productions and aired for eight episodes on AMC from ...
Pecos Bill (/ ˈ p eɪ k ə s / PAY-kəs) [1] is a fictional cowboy and folk hero in stories set during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona. These narratives were invented as short stories in a book by Tex O'Reilly in the early 20th century and are an example of American "fakelore".
From 1895 to 1962, Burgess wrote "nearly 900" stories, natural science articles, and poems for magazines, including 201 children's stories for People's Home Journal magazine. For over 16 years from May 1913 through the magazine's demise following its final December 1929 issue, Burgess published a children's story in every issue of People's Home ...