Frontiersmen: A Native American Hero

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Frontiersmen People first came to America because it is “the land of opportunities” and they want to escape from the control of their government. The east coast was the beginning of the frontier experience when the first settlers came there and when the last western land settled that was the end of the frontier. Because of the harsh life in the frontier and the people who lived there had to do everything by themselves, so they have to be self-reliant. The self-reliant frontiersman who Americans made them the American male hero; this kind of male hero had a strong body and rugged because of the condition of the frontier life. They have skilled with guns and other weapons, also they don’t need any help from others and they often be alone in …show more content…

Boone has entered into a fight with a group of Indian Americans and collect skins bears, beavers and deer. He served in the Lord Denmor war in 1774, and in 1775 led a group of settlers to Kentucky, where they founded the town of Boonesborough. Also, in 1778 he was arrested with his group by the Indian American tribe called Shawnee and he stayed with them and was taken to Detroit, on his way back from there he escaped and arrived to Boonesborough, after a long trip for 260 km in four days. Then he participated in the Battle of Blue Lakes in 1782. He had presented the settlers in a period of his life in the Legislative Council in Virginia, and was also vice land Scanner warden and Lieutenant Lafayette province, which is one of the three provinces that have divided in Kentucky. In 1788 Boone moved to Point Pleasant in Virginia, and in 1799 he moved to what was known later as the Missouri and he stay in Sant Louis that was under the rule of Spain back then; He received a land grant in Sant Louis from the Spain’s. After the United States acquired the ownership of the Louisiana territory from France in 1803 he found that no need of property after the ownership of the land move from one country to another and he loss of his property. He died in the September 22, 1820, and in 1845 moved his remains to Frankfurt, Kentucky and held his monument to his memory. Many of places in U.S.A are named for his name, and many settlements carrying his name such as …show more content…

James Unofficially fought in the American Civil War with gang Bloody Bill Anderson, and his brother fought with the Task Colonel Frank W. C Koantryl. After the end of the war the militant groups had surrendered and Jesse had a gunshot and he turned to the criminal life, then he became one of the outlaws. He created his gang in 1867, they were steeling banks and trains, murder, robbery, attacked the mail shops and people, but they boast that they did not steal a friend or a priest or widow. In September 7, 1876 the gang destroyed the first national bank in Norfield, they were eight thieves and some of Jesse’s brothers. Jesse had fought against the north authorities to protect the Southern people, because, they were suffered from the cruel treatment of the north authorities. They prevent them from full amnesty, important career positions, kept them in jail for no reason and continue harassing the rural people. Robbery and murder had been daily act, also they force them to pay tolls for railroads. Even though, he was an outlaw man, he defended people from the government and return back their rights. In 1881 the governor of Missouri Thomas Krtendn offers a 30,000 US dollars to whoever catch him dead or alive, at the same time James offers $ 50,000 to anyone who kills the governor Thomas. During James living in Santi Joseph, one of his gang members, Robert Ford, killed Jesse James to get the

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