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WILD FACTS AND FORGOTTEN PHOTOS FROM THE WILD WEST

By Hannah Pennington, Published on Dec 6, 2020


The Wild West conjures up all kinds of images. Now, we can take a glimpse into
the past with some almost forgotten photos of the time.



When you think of the Wild West, what comes to mind? We guess that cowboys,
western hats, and horses are some of the things at the top of the list? Then
there are the saloons – how could we forget about the saloons? Although many of
us have our own idea about what it would be like to live in the Wild West, we
will never know what it was like to be alive at the time. That doesn’t mean we
have to stop picturing it all in our heads, right? Thankfully, some people were
there to capture the moment in ways that we never imagined.

It’s been 100 years since the end of the Wild West, but people are still more
intrigued about the time than ever. After all, the streets were crawling with
outlaws, shootouts were happening across the nation, and major movements
happened all throughout the Wild West. For many years, people thought they would
be nothing more than tales of the time that get passed through the generations.
Little did we know the budding photographers filled the land in between all the
cowboys and outlaws as they helped to forever immortalize a time that history
certainly won’t forget.




CATTLE DRIVES COULD KEEP COWBOYS AWAY FROM HOME FOR MONTHS

Starting a new nation and spreading across the country is never an easy feat –
especially as cowboys lived in a world without cars. That meant cowboys would
have to leave town for months as they traveled the land. One of the longest and
toughest jobs they had to face were cattle drives as they could take up to three
months.




Source: True West Archives

The cowboys would travel all day and campout each night as they moved the
animals and often had to go without baths for weeks at a time. It was common for
all the cowboys to bathe in the river at the end of a trail before they headed
to the nearest town to celebrate with a night of eating and drinking.





BIRTHDAY PARTIES IN THE WILD WEST WERE VERY DIFFERENT FROM PARTIES TODAY

Have you ever found yourself wondering what a birthday party in the Wild West
could look like? Here it is! People know the photo was taken in 1900, and the
party took place in Minnesota. However, no one really knows that much about the
people in the picture or whose birthday it was. It appears that most of the
people on the invite list were women.




Source: Getty Images

It also seems as though the group enjoyed some kind of afternoon tea outside on
a table covered with flowers. People of the time knew how to have a good time,
so there’s a good chance there were plenty of outdoor games and laughter.
Perhaps the night was finished with a trip to the local saloon?





THE HOMESTEAD ACT OFFERED FAMILIES CHEAP LAND IF THEY MOVED ACROSS THE NATION

President Abraham Lincoln did a lot to shape the Wild West, especially in 1862.
The president signed the Homestead Act that meant families could get 160-acre
farms for five years. Here, they could live and make a career for themselves,
but there was a catch. They had to move across the nation to the west.




Source: Getty Images

It wasn’t long before families packed up everything they owned and made the move
as they wanted in on the action. It’s thought that 1862 to 1900 saw
approximately 400,000 families snatch up the land and migrate to the west.
However, it all ended in 1934 as President Roosevelt signed the Taylor Grazing
Act, meaning people could no longer graze animals on federal public lands.





JAMES MARSHALL’S DISCOVERY ACCIDENTALLY GOT PEOPLE INTERESTED IN CALIFORNIA

1848 was a huge year for James Marshall as the Wild West was about to learn a
secret that had been living under their nose the entire time. James was
responsible for discovering gold at the now-famous Sutter’s Mill. In fact, he
was working on building the mill when he first made the discovery. James was
originally from New Jersey before he traveled to California.




Source: Alamy

He was a talented carpenter who knew his way around a building. John Sutter, aka
the person that owned Sutter’s Mill, enlisted John to help, but that wasn’t all.
The two men discovered the gold and tried to keep it a secret as they wanted all
the riches for themselves. Sadly, their dreams didn’t come true.





KIT CARSON WAS ONE OF THE LEADING FRONTIERS OF CALIFORNIA

Christopher Carson, better known as Kit, had a huge impact on America as we know
it today – even though many people have never heard his name. The frontier was
one of the leading people that helped develop California in the state’s early
days. However, Kit lived with a huge secret for the majority of his life.




Source: Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

It turned out the frontier was completely illiterate and was always hugely
embarrassed by this fact. Developing California meant that Kit got to spend a
lot of time with the natives in the area and quickly fell in love with not one
but two women as Kit married two native women in his life. By the time he
passed, Kit had welcomed ten children into the world.





THE COWBOYS IN THE WILD WEST DIDN’T PLAY POKER AS MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE

All kinds of images often come to mind when we think of life in the Wild West.
One on the list is playing poker, but it turns out that might not be so true
after all. That’s because cowboys weren’t playing poker at all, but they were
playing a game that needed cards and chips. The game in question? Faro.




Source: Imgur/WeirdAlisMySpiritUserName

It was actually thought up in France during the 17th-century and featured
several players and a banker. Faro was highly popular as soon as it landed in
the Wild West as it was easy to learn and fast-paced. Plus, you could win some
money if you were lucky. This photo captured a group of men playing the gambling
game in a saloon in Arizona, 1985.




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