Wild West Research Paper

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The West, as we all know it as the "Wild West". The Industrial Age changed the West in many ways. In the West there had always been farmers. Farming, mining, and cattle were the life of the West. A great variety of Native American cultures ruled most parts of the area. By the end of the era, the West became filled with new immigrants of all kinds. The West, a place of complicatedness and differences. The two different cultures that did not correspond with the way of life growing in the West were the Native Americans and the Chinese. The personal accounts and factual evidence during the historical events of the Wild West give readers a well-detailed experiences through the advantages of Primary sources and textbook publications. You can't …show more content…

Can't do his historical research without digging up some primary sources. Primary Sources explore history through the lends of old letters, diaries, government documents, etc. Thereare also audio or video recordings. It is an original documents or objects that were created at the time historical events happened. Primary sources is a key way toserve as a raw materials that historians use to interpret the past. They allow us to build interpretations because they are examples of what people did at this time. Primary sources help you for your own argument to defend your thesis, using this information is unfiltered by another person point of view, and able to critique in original work using your own ideas. Without these primary sources we could make up any story about history. Primary Sources is the closes form of information to the idea or the topic …show more content…

For example, the history textbook, "HIST3" by Kevin M. Schultz would be considered a secondary source. There are many advantages to using secondary sources. The advantages for secondary sources are ease of access, low cost to acquire, helping the researcher to consider other perspectives, saving time, analyze the data and come up with new relevant conclusions or verify and confirm the results and can strengthen your own argument. According to Kevin M. Schultz in HIST3, "Some immigrant girls, driven by poverty and desperation, turned to prostitution" (316). In the West, majority of the women became prostitutes. In primary source 4 a women named Nannie Alderson, moved to live in the West and got acquainted with a woman who worked as a prostitute. Nannie expressed her thoughts to herself saying, "There was a wealthy Englishman, among several such around Miles City at the time, whose brother later came into a title; and this man set her up in an establishment of her own with horses, carriage, everything, and was seen with her everywhere." It seems to be that this woman, the "prostitute", who got everything from this Englishman like if she was his own property. Not only did women become someone else's, these young woman started dying young because of STD's, abortions, alcohol abuse, suicide, or murder. In this case in primary source 5, a young girl name, "Mary Moore born