THE WILD WEST CHAPTER 2 AND 3

TRANSLATION IN SPANISH

CHAPTER 2

Native Americans

Native Americans, or 'red Indians', lived in North America for thousands of years.
years before the people from Europe arrived. There were many different tribes, most
with different languages. The tribes had their lands to hunt, and sometimes they fought for
They. But the earth, the mountains, the rivers, and the trees were living beings to them. The
Indians understood the land. They only took what they needed to live.

But for the 'white man', the land was something to buy and sell and to profit from.
money. The white men wanted to acquire land for their farms and mines.

The government of the United States did not understand the love of the Native Americans for the
land, its mountains and rivers. They asked the Indians to hand over some of their land to
the white men, and at first they did, but then the white men wanted
more and more lands, and the government relocated the Indians to reservations.

Between 1853 and 1874, the Indians lost 700 million square kilometers of land.
for white men.

THE BUFFALO

Native Americans hunted and killed only the animals they needed, and nothing else.
more. For many tribes, the most important animal of all was the buffalo. They ate
buffalo meat, and the buffalo hide became pants, dresses, and shoes so that
they used, and in homes where it was important to live.

When Native Americans saw white men hunting and killing thousands of
buffaloes, were afraid and angry. Some wanted to fight the white men.

SITTING BULL

The most famous Indian of all was Chief Sitting Bull, a Sioux Indian born in Dakota.
from the South around 1831. He was the most famous leader of the Sioux tribe.

Sitting Bull did not like the white man. In 1863, the soldiers attacked
some of his men when they went hunting. For the next two years, a Bull
Angry Sitting fought with the United States Army. In 1864 he led his
men to fight against two thousand American sellers in the Battle of Kildeer
Mountain.

In 1868, some Sioux Indians moved to a large

In 1875, the US government asked the Sioux chiefs to meet with them.
They wanted to buy the Black Hills from the Indians to put gold mines there. Sitting Bull
he did not go to meet with the government agent, but he sent them a message: 'no
we want white men here. The black hills are our hills. We are
ready to fight against the white men for them.

In June 1876, Crazy Horse sent a message to all the Sioux, Arapaho, and...
Cheyenne. 'We must fight against the whites.' Man! 'And 10,000 Indians prepared.

Some days later. 1,000 of them fought against 1,300 white soldiers in
Montana. The fight continued for six hours. When it ended and the Indians in
the last one left, there were only nine dead white soldiers.

All the Sioux Indians moved towards the Little Big Horn River. A week later,
George Custer and his soldiers found them there.

The Indians knew Custer well. Eight years earlier, in 1868, Custer and his
the soldiers killed more than a hundred sleeping Indians, mostly women, children and
elderly people - when he attacked a Cheyenne village near the Washita River. He also fought
against the Sioux in the Black Hills and helped bring gold miners there. When he arrived
Custer Little Big Horn, the Sioux remembered these things and were angry

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, on June 25, 1876, was the most famous of all
Indian battles. In one hour, about 3,000 Native Americans killed Custer and his 250.
soldiers. When people in the east read the story of the little battle of Big
In their newspapers, many were very angry with the Indians for killing Custer.

After the battle, the seated bull took his people to Canada, but in 1881 he took them
home again. By then, the United States government had the hills
black and there was nothing seated that Bull could do about it. Later, the bull
He traveled to many cities in America and Canada with Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West.
West. Buffalo Bill liked the Indian chief and gave him a beautiful horse to take him when
he left the show. After that, Sitting Bull went home to live.
calmly for a few years.

Around that time, some of the Indians started to say that

The sitting bull did nothing to stop the new beliefs in his tribe. On the 14th of
December 1890, the police officers went to get him. There was a fight, and Toro
seated died in her.
CHAPTER 3

THE GUN LAW

When the first people moved from the cities in the east to the west,
there was a lot of crime. Later, when the law came to the west, the law offices and
the legislated were often eighty kilometers or more away. So the people in
they had to fight crime without the help of the law. Abilene and Dodge City
there were two cities famous for crime. The cowboys came here with their weapons and
his money after weeks on the road. They drank and played and some men
they died in fights.

There was also crime in the cities near the nearby cities.
gold mines, and the people in the east began to call the west the 'Wild West'. And it was wild.

THE PINKERTONS

Allan Pinkerton came from Scotland to Chicago in 1842 and started the detectives.
of Pinkerton.

"We never sleep," said on the front window of each Pinkerton office.
This and its photo of an open eye earned it the name 'Eyes'. And this later gave it the
The name 'private eye' refers to any detective who does not work for the police.

The Pinkertons became famous in 1861. That year, Allan Pinkerton learned about
that some men wanted to kill President Abraham Lincoln, and they arrested them.

WYATT EARP

One of the most famous lawmen of the West was Wyatt Earp. He was born in Illinois, and
he had four brothers: Virgil, Morgan, James, and Warren. When Wyatt was sixteen
Years later, his family moved to California. He worked on the railroad, and he was a hunter of
buffalos and a stagecoach driver. Then, Wyatt went to Wichita and became a
city office worker police there. His brother James lived in Wichita. In 1876, Wyatt moved.
to Dodge City, Kansas, and was a police officer there for two years. During that time,
met the famous West Gunman Doc Holliday.

In 1878, EARP left Dodge City and traveled to New Mexico and California. Then, in 1879,
he went to live in the city of the gravestone of Arizona, famous for its mines of
gold, and for the crime. Shortly after, Doc Holliday. And Wyatt Morgan's two brothers.
Warren arrived in the city. In July 1880, Wyatt became the sheriff.
His brother Virgil was a deputy marshal. Next. In 1881. A big fight broke out.
famous to the Earp brothers throughout the West.

The famous shootout at the OK Corral took place on October 26, 1881. The fight was between
the Earp brothers and a gang of criminals called the Clanton gang.

On the afternoon of October 26, Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday killed three.
from the Clanton gang at the OK Corral. Virgil was the first to shoot. He killed.
a man. Doc shot and killed a second man, and Wyatt and Morgan shot and
They killed a third person. Two men escaped.

In the shootout, the Clanton Gang shot at Morgan, Virgil, and Doc, but not
they died. They didn't hit Wyatt at all. The shooting lasted half a minute. In the movie
Gunfight at the OK Corral, Wyatt, his brothers, and Doc Holliday are good men who
They fight for the law. But today, some people say that the shooting was a fight between two.
gangs of criminals