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The Homesman is a 2014 Western historical drama film set in the 1850s Midwest and directed by Tommy Lee Jones.Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, and Wesley Oliver based the screenplay on the 1988 novel of the same name by Glendon Swarthout.
The 1953 movie Shane depicts some early homesteaders in Wyoming opposed by a cattle baron who abuses, threatens and terrorizes them, calling them "pig farmers," "sod-busters," "squatters" and other taunts and insults. When the rancher gets violent, the homesteaders are divided over whether to leave or to hold onto their claims.
The film is a stark depiction of early homestead life in the American West. It is based on a memoir by Elinore Pruitt Stewart , titled Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914). [ 4 ]
Pages in category "Films set in the 1800s" The following 109 pages are in this category, out of 109 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Adieu Bonaparte;
The Homestead Act of 1862 is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. It aims to encourage settlement in the West by simplifying the process of land acquisition: homesteaders need only claim, occupy for five years, and improve a minimum of 160 acres of unappropriated land to be granted full ownership. Alternatively, settlers have the ...
Acting governor Amos W. Barber supported the cattlemen, who blamed the small ranchers and homesteaders for the criminal activity in the state. Former cowboy, Indian War veteran, and Sheriff of Buffalo (the county seat of Johnson County), William "Red" Angus, supported the homesteaders, and believed that the cattle barons were abusing the ...
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Railroad crossing with cattle guards in rural South Dakota. Great Plains of Nebraska. Prairie madness or prairie fever was an affliction that affected European settlers in the Great Plains during their migration to, and settlement of, the Canadian Prairies and the Western United States in the 19th century.