Antoine Robidoux was a mountain man, trader, son, husband, brother, and friend. He died on August 29th, 1860 in St. Joseph, Missouri. Antoine was born September 24th, in Forissant, Missouri. He was born a member of a large and influential French-Canadian trading family.
Jessica Ramirez April 22, 2015 Kenneth Mcduffwas an American murderer. He was convicted of murdering sixteen year-old Edna Sullivan, her boyfriend, seventeen-year old Robert Brand, and Robert's cousin, 15 year-old Mark Dunnam, who was visiting from California. McDuffs first death sentence was commuted in the 1990s when the death penalty was ruled unconstitutional. His first sentence was convicted in March 1992 abduction and murder of 22-year old Melissa. She was working her job as a clerk at the Quic Pac convenience store when she was abducted and driven from the location in her own vehicle.
He was an American outlaw, guerrilla, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Jesse and his brother Frank James were Confederate guerrillas or bushwhackers during the Civil War. After the war, as members of various gangs of outlaws, they robbed banks, stagecoaches, and trains. Jesse Woodson James was born in Clay County, Missouri, near the site of present-day Kearney, on September 5, 1847. This area of Missouri was settled by many Southerners and became known as Little Dixie.
Many human beings think that his most horrible crime was killing a shereff right after a train robbery. According to most people he robbed a bank with his gang. A sheriff named Ed Farr was thinking that the gang went to a place called Turkey Creek. It turned out that they were there. It resulted in a gunfight and the sheriff died.
“Bigfoot” Wallace : A humble American Hero Wallace “Bigfoot” Wallace : A humble American Hero “Bigfoot” Wallace was a true American hero, he fought in eight battles and was a member of the Texas ranger division . “Bigfoot” Wallace was Born in Lexington, Virginia on April 3, 1817, young William was a very large kid at 6 '2 and 240 pounds and he worked hard on his father 's fruit orchard. He got the nickname “bigfoot” from his large feet. His family had moved to Texas when his two brothers were sadly killed in the Goliad Massacre. His family settled in the city of LaGrange in 1837.
The humiliation of the Confederates’ lost in the war made James feel like a victim and he did not want to have to live with the guilt of being a failure of what the South stood up for. He decided to keep fighting against the North and started targeting banks. One in particular targeted in Gallatin, Missouri he knew was owned by the man that murdered one of his fellow gang members during his time with the Confederate Guerrillas, “Bloody Bill” Anderson. Still teamed up with his brother Frank James, on December 7, 1869, Jesse and his brother shot a cashier and stole some papers worth nothing. They made a promise that they would never be captured alive.
Henry McCarty also know as Billy The Kid was a outlaw who never robbed a bank or train. He was orphaned as a kid when he was 14. When he was born his father was not there so his mother raised him by herself. Until Henry was 14 and she died of tuburculoses leaving him an orphan. His first arrest came from stealing clothes from a chinese laundry with someone named sombrero jack.
There were many stories told about outlaws and lawmen during the 1800s in America, and many of them originated from the “Wild West.” There have been stories and legends about people who robbed banks, committed homicide, or threw wanted criminals in jail. Often, people would stretch the truth of what westerners actually did, to make their tale more compelling. The same goes for a popular stagecoach driver of the mid 1800s, a man named Charley Parkhurst, who is best known for being a woman disguised as a man.
Paper Topic 1 After reading Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) in the course packet, and watching the film Birth of a Nation (2016) I was able to notice some key takeaways and differences between the two. The film Birth of a Nation was directed by Nate Parker, he also played the main role in the film acting as Nat Turner.
During the Roaring Twenties, people started spending more money and having more free time. They got this free time because of an increase in production, letting them out of the factories more. With more time on there hands, people started to listen to musicians like louis Armstrong. Armstrong played a significant role in the 1920’s by changing the way people looked at jazz music. Armstrong was born August 4,1901 in New Orleans.
“Charlie Parker was a legendary Grammy Award–winning jazz saxophonist” . If there was a previous era of Jazz, due to the emergence of Louis Armstrong, a completely new and transformed Jazz Age came after and was created by Charlie Parker. Although Charlie Parker lived a short life, he accomplished a great achievement in jazz, as he still remains as a legendary figure to many people. Charlie Parker is one of the most famous and influential jazz alto saxophonist and composer that influenced the course of jazz with the creation of his unique Bebop style. Charlie Parker was born on August 29th 1920 in Kansas City.
Armstrong was mentored and inspired by King Oliver. Armstrong was born in 1901 and had a rocky childhood. In fifth grade Armstrong was forced to drop out of school and begin working. This was because his stepfather was arrested and sent to jail when he was only ten years old. This also caused him to be sent to a home for boys because he no longer had anyone to take care of him.
Satchel Paige Leroy Robert “Satchel” Page was born on July 7, 1906 in Mobile, Alabama to John and Lula Page. He was born in what he calls a “shotgun shack’, meaning if someone were to shoot through the front door it would go straight through the house and out the back door.” Leroy was the seventh out of the eleven children his parents had. Their last name was originally spelled “Page”, but his mother decided that adding the letter “I” to the family name would hold it to high standards. Lula Paige sent Satchel to work at an early age.
The tragic hero that I am describing in this essay goes by the name of Henry Jones Jr., but is more widely recognized by his nickname, Indiana Jones, which was given to him during his times of archaeological quests to retrieve ancient artifacts. Jones worked as a college professor in Marshall College, the University of Princeton, and Barnett College, where he expertised in archaeological studies. His starter movie, Raiders of The Last Ark, saw him being recruited by the United States Government to discover the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis. In the film, Indy shows many courageous feats, as well as his fair share of misadventures that see him being held captive in the Nazi’s hands and the ark now out of his possession. Indiana Jones
Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1901, even though he sometimes said later in his life that he was born on July 4, 1900. He was raised by his mother and grandmother after his father, who was a factory worker, left the family while Armstrong was still a child. His family was very poor, and as a child Armstrong worked many odd jobs to help support the family. Armstrong was surrounded by music while working and playing in the streets of New Orleans. Since he could not afford an instrument, he learned to sing and joined a vocal quartet that sang on street corners for a little extra money.
