American Old West

It is not a religion, though certainly Cannibalism has theological overtones. I do not know how the padres ruled in this respect. Thanks largely to supermarkets, it could not happen today with some exceptions for such things as the Andes plane crash survivors, the subject of the book (Alive)

Cowboys used rifles for hunting or for killing varmints and in the wild west for defense. Some of them enjoyed target shooting for fun.

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Here a several (from Amazon.com):

# The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party by Marian Calabro (Hardcover - Mar 29, 1999) # Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart (Paperback - Jan 30, 1992) # The Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train, 1846-47 by Frank Mullen (Paperback - Sep 1997) # Patty Reed's Doll: The Story of the Donner Party by Rachel K. Laurgaard and Elizabeth Sykes Michaels (Paperback - Aug 1989) # The Archaeology Of The Donner Party (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities) by Donald L Hardesty (Paperback - Oct 18, 2005) # Snowbound: The Tragic Story of the Donner Party by David Lavender (Hardcover - April 1996) # The Donner Party (Disasters in History) by Welvaert, Scott R., Barnett III, and Charles (Paperback - Sep 1, 2006) # The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds : The Donner Party Expedition, 1846 (My Name Is America) by Rodman Philbrick (Hardcover - Nov 1, 2001) # 28 Used & new from $2.49 # The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton (Paperback - April 25, 2008) # The Donner Party: Weathering the Storm by Mark McLaughlin (Perfect Paperback - Jan 10, 2007) # Deceived: The Story of the Donner Party by Peter R. Limburg (Hardcover - Oct 1998)

There are a number of photographs of Donner Party members. Eleanor Eddy's and Sarah Keyes' photos were taken before they left for California. There is also a painting of Charles Stanton.

There are also many photos of Donner Party members taken at different times after the disaster, some as early as the 1850s and some as late as the 1930s.

You can find many of them by searching on "Donner party" at Google Images.

It wasn't chicken so it could have been either still beef or pork.

They didn't leave Springfield, Missouri, they left Springfield, Illinois. They wanted to better their lives by moving to an area where there was less sickness, a climate with no cold winters, and good farming land.

There were some deaths along the way that had nothing to do with the weather, but if my research is accurate, none of these ended up on the table. This was an arduous trip and there most certainly were confrontations. One resulted in the death of James Snyder in an argument with one of the organizers of the group, James Reed.

At first the group wanted to hang Reed, but he was just banished, leaving behind a wife and several children. When they finanlly realized they were stuck on the mountain and were in a very bad situation, a party was sent to find a town. Along the way the 17 people that were sent to find help lost 1 of their group and he was eaten. The two Indian guides then left for fear they would be eaten next. They were hunted down and killed for their desertion.

When help finally arrived there were 45 of the original 89 settlers. There were body parts lying in the snow, some human some belonging to oxen. But their main rescuer was James Reed, the man they almost hung.

two brothers and three sisters

branding

farmers used the invention of barbed wire to claim land...

The term was sod buster and it means farmer. Side buster is a more current urban term for busy body.

The same way we do today. You open the area of the bite and suck out the venom, but this method still requires medical help. It only slows it from getting further in the body.

The Bowie knife

The question of whether Doc Holliday killed Johnny Ringo remains a topic of historical debate. Ringo was found dead in 1882, and while some believe Holliday may have been involved, there is no definitive evidence to confirm this. The official cause of Ringo's death was ruled a suicide, though some theories suggest he may have been murdered. Ultimately, the true circumstances surrounding Ringo's death remain unclear.

In the old west, medical technology did not exist that would enable a person to surgically change genders. However, transexual people have always existed, and have identified and lived as the opposite gender since the beginnings of the human race. So there certainly were transexual individuals in the time of the old west.

The Mormon Trail didn't change the American West, because the Mormon Trail was next to the Oregon Trail.

Another answer:

The Mormon Trail followed the Oregon Trail until it hit Fort Bridger, Wyoming. There the Mormon Trail split off down toward where Salt Lake City, Utah is today. The largest change the Mormon Trail did to change the American West is bring a large influx of people into the American West. People who were willing to try to settle the desert areas in Utah and Idaho that no one else wanted to touch. It also helped solidify a trail that lead was a main stopping point for people headed to Oregon or California. People traveling on either the Oregon or California Trails would go to Salt Lake City and resupply before continuing their journey west, usually rejoining the trails around the southern central part of Idaho right near the Idaho-Utah border.

"Cow town" is an old american slang phrase denoting a small community usually located in cattle country which were primarily in the US west and southwest.

In the late 1880s, Kansas state was closed to Texas cattle for 4 months disrupting the flow of beef from the south to the north. There were also issues with Texas fever quarantines which kept the cattle from travelling because no one wanted their herds getting infected. Settlers also made it very difficult to drive cattle as they demanded money for cattle to cross their lands.

It's either looped or roped. When you hear the sentence, "the cowboy roped (or looped) the steer" it means that the cowboy grabbed or caught that steer with his rope. Lassoed is another term, but you don't hear that very often among real cowpokes.

Barbed wire.

Life was probably pretty quiet for residents of cattle towns. That is, until the cowboys came to town. Then, it was probably a pretty noisy place with the cowboys wanting to spend their money as soon as they got it. They might go to the saloon, get a bath, stay in the hotel, or eat a meal out on the town.