Does anyone really like to learn about the 1800's in America with the gold rushes and the outlaws and stuff like that? It's some of my favourite things to research. Just wondering if anyone else liked it.
thats some of my favorite stuff. im into pioneers and wagon trains and all of that. like once a year i volunteer at this place where i dress up like a pioneer and hang out in a old log cabin. its fun. and outlaws/bank robbers are cool too.
My favourite story is the dalton brothers in coffeeville kansas there is an eagles song about it........
I hear I'm related to Jesse James. I have no idea if it's true though, it could be one of those things like how in Texas everyone thinks Davey Crockett is somewhere in their family tree. Wasnt davey from Tennisee anyway?
Back then there was more west to the west, when StLouis was considered west! The outlaws were all over at the time, down here where I am we had Railroad Bill. Railroad Bill robbed trains across the florida panhandle west to texas for about 12 years in the late 1800s. At the time being robbed on a train was the equivalent of in-flight entertainment!
Trading villages of the caddo later became patrolled by the (then) army. It was common practice to demand salute (tribute) or be put on a list of hostiles. That basicly meant give us some free schwag or we'll rain hell on you.
But, I would not have been a pioneer who hit the oregon, I woulda said fuggit and gone south or something I'm sure.
