The pursuit for something more drove them onward.

The 33average amount of gold found was $10.00 to $40.00 a day, some found a nugget worth $500 but they were few.

John Sutter left Sweden with a dream, a dream of building a city of Swedish immigrants.

e  a  man.  Looking  back  over  the  years  and  the  time  in  which  Jesse  Jameswas  born  can  give  an  insight  to  his  outlaw  l

Its  hard  to  say  what  causes  a  man  to  do  what  he  does,  in  the  case  ofJesse  James  many  have  guessed  and  wondered  why  he  was  an  

Ialso think that the time frame is important too

When it comes tothe battles that they faced during this time it was the battle between themselves and mother nature.

In an article titled “Starvation Under the Orange Trees,” Steinbeck better explained, “Faced with the question of starving or moving, the dispossessed families came west.

The continuity of the frontier, the convergence of various people, the conquest of land owners, and the complexity of the unfamiliar situation the Joads where thrusted into, all place Steinbeck’s book in what should be considered a “Western

They set off for California, the land of plenty, jobs, and little white houses. They know there are jobs because Ole Tom, Tom’s dadhasa flyer that says there are. This is like the people who left the crowded east for land in the west, they loaded covered wagons.7Patricia Nelson Limerick tells us about the life of the pioneer, they left the crowded east to head west toward the promised land

John Wayne has just been released from prison and his horse has died. He is walking along a dusty roadhe does not know where home is, but any place is as good as another

Race is superior over gender and class, people see your race before anything else. Once they see your race then they act accordingly based on your gender and class.

When two Ethnic groups come together there is always a thing called culture clash. They worship differently, live a different life style, speak a different language. This causes the two groups to shy away from each other.

The relations between the Indians and the white man were total static, and fear on both sides. The Mexican and white relationship was one of total misunderstanding, this was due to a lack of communicationand a total culture clash. The two races spoke different languages and had different lifestyles and nether wanted to change their way of living.

Out west race came to define one’s character.

When in and out groups are created throughout societies winners and losers are created. This is what happened in the American West

No government meant that they could

There was work for everybody on a ranch, the owner took care of the money, the cowboys took care of the cattle, the branding and the herding. There had to be cooks and hands that mended fences, the cattle industry was lucrative for a lot of people

The west was a world where people of all ethnicities could live in peace, a land where people could live in harmony and help each other endure the hard work and overcome the endless obstacles that existed

The white Americans played the victim to savagery of the Indians and in turn required government to put an end to these unruly people

Opportunities seemed to be everywhere and there for the taking