| BILLY THE KID
William Bonney, Patrick
Henry McCarty
Born: Sept 17, 1859, New York
Died: July 13, 1881 in
Fort Sumner, New Mexico |
BUTCH CASSIDY
Butch Cassidy Robert Leroy
Parker
Born: 1866 in Beaver, Utah
Died: unknown |
WILD BILL HICKOCK
James Butler Hickok
Born: May 27, 1837 in Troy Grove,
Illinois Died: August 2, 1876 in Deadwood, South Dakota |
ANNIE OAKLEY
Annie Oakley Phoebe Moses
Born: August 13, 1860 in Darke County, Ohio Died: November
2, 1926 in Dayton, Ohio |
This
is only some of all those famous hero/gunslinger characters
we have been reading about and seen on the movies. Wild Bill
Hickok, Jesse James, Billy The Kid and their colleagues have
without any hesitation a certain economical meaning to the United
States. And they still have. Every year the U.S brings in big
money from other country's that buys western movies, tv-series
with western motives and books about the wild west. They have
nothing to do with the conquest of the west. They didn't do
anything to bring the civilization forward. And the smoke from
their colt revolvers is hiding the real heroes-the farmers who
transferred the wilderness to cultivated fields, the pioneers
who cut the threes so they could build houses and make roads,
the cowboys who fought their way through the prairie. The west
wasn't conquered with a smoking gun, it was taken by real and
hard work.
