Intro: The wild west or west Texas, land coveted by the Americans who believe in Manifest destiny, but guarded by natives who wish to keep their homeland. On this frontier is a series of stories worthy of Shakespeare filled with bravery, danger, tragedy, and confusion. These are those stories. Will: Before the Civil war the frontier was practically owned by the white man, and the Native Americans were almost driven out. For the settler, they felt as safe on the frontier as they would in New York because there were forts filled with trained soldiers spread across Texas. People saw it as a way to grow with your country, but that all changed when their country stopped growing to fight itself. During the Civil war, many soldiers that guarded western …show more content…
The fact that the west was unsafe meant that people would not want to manifest their destiny if the destiny they would manifest would be stolen from them (DWG perspective), so they would not roll the dice on cheap land that came with a hidden price. This was a big problem for America because federal spending on railroads, and further westward expansion was underway, and if nobody wanted to move to the west they would have wasted millions of dollars crippling the Confederate economy. Unfortunately for Confederates there was nothing it could do about it because they were too occupied with the war. This impacted the future of the west because now the natives have a foothold on west Texas making it harder for the America to kick them out. After the Confederate surrender in 1835 left America to try and restart the Manifest Destiny movement, but this proved tricky because they would have to build new forts that would constantly be raided making construction almost impossible. The forts that were built so far apart that it was easy for natives to sneak past forts and raid settlements. Many of the troops who were used to Guerilla warfare died in the Civil war, and in their