Nowadays, when people mention cowboys, they are easily come up with the cowboy culture and also realize a lot of western movies. Cowboy culture not only influences Western, but also influence the Eastern countries, such as my home country China. When I was a child, people in China used to watch movies to know the western culture and the cowboy was the one figure what the western people are and what their characteristics which seek for freedom and try to explore larger area and they never showed afraid out. Chinese people can learn a lot culture differences from watching western movies. Cowboys gave the image that they are always wear the cowboy hat, jeans and also the cowboy boots and they also showed in the movies which several cowboys who …show more content…
wore all cowboy clothing and sat in the bar. Their actions with the cowboy suits made Chinese people feel very cool and imitate same style clothes at that time. On the other hand, cowboy also played very important role in America. Cowboys had the spirit of brave, adventure and so on. And the cowboy culture impact on American people in their lives from the daily wearing to the characters. Cowboys was the original word of “vaqueros” (P80) from Spain that “the institution of the cattle ranch was imported by the Spanish to the Western hemisphere and cultivated by the Mexicans who lived in what is now "the Southwest" and "the West" especially southern Texas and southern California.” (Paredes and the hero: the North American cowboy revisited) Later on, the American people knew the cowboys in the “20th century is derived from several sources.” According to David’s book to know the American people also know the cowboys from the “the real-life cowboys who drove cattle north from Texas to the Kansas rail towns after the Civil War” which after the Civil War, the southern slavery was abolished and the western was expanded so that land was larger than before and there were more cows which increased amount of the cowboys and cowboys became well-known after the Civil War. Second, the “heroes of dime novels in the 19th century (and their descendants, the pulp magazines of the early 20th century;” Third, the “Wild West shows, most notably the one by Buffalo Bill Cody;” Forth, the “movies, especially the singing-cowboy and “B” movie of the 1930s and 1940s;” and finally, the “television shows, particularly those in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when westerns dominated the networks.”(P82) By these ways to make “Cowboys” as the popular word to appear in the United Stated and most of the American people were influence at that time. The Cowboy has the special spirit as one of the part to create the Cowboy culture, which they have the brave and the tough mind to travel to a new place and raise their own cattle and family.
When we look back to their original history that we can see they were not only work against the nature for their life but also fight against the bandits to protect their hometown. Based on this situation, people live and work in west place paying more attention on functional stuff is not strange thing. As we all know, cowboys has a cowboy suit and that one formed a new style during the following decades of years and was famous of its durable and this style almost be loved by everyone who was going to the west to explore the gold and dream of becoming rich in one night. When we talk about the cowboy suit, we usually connect it with horses and wilderness and that one also indicates one main characteristic of cowboy – freedom. In the western movies or books we can often see that cowboys save or help one’s life while he is riding a horse or when a group merchant is trying to across one wide Gobi, they always can find a vagabond cowboy to protect them. This spirit always evokes Americans to fight against injustice and discrimination and many writers write about liberty by learning this kind of spirit. Although many people consider cowboy as a man with no property, no schooling, no social standing, no ambition for money, cowboy has boundless courage, competence, self discipline, physical
prowess, and integrity. The cowboy was a figure of romance in one of the most romantic, beautiful, and majestic natural settings on the planet. The cowboy was a figure of honor. “cowboy helped to create what is now one of our largest industries, Hollywood. And the western continued to thrive for more than a half century, shaping our values, aspirations, and fantasies through the fifties and most of the sixties,” (COWBOY NATION AND AMERICAN CHARACTER P49). Americans benefited from the virtue of cowboy and learned how to be a honor and honest gentleman but throw away the mindless violence and greed which forced by the past situation to keep their state keep developing fast and thriving.
The image created for the outlaw hero is the “natural man.” They are adventurous but also wanderers, and loners. Outlaw heroes are more likely to commit a crime, use weapons and carry guns. The outlaw hero represents self-determination and freedom from conflicts. On the other hand, the official hero is portrayed to be “the civilized” man. He often follows the norms of society, and has typical roles such as a lawyer, teacher, and family man.
In the introduction, Hämäläinen introduces how Plains Indians horse culture is so often romanticized in the image of the “mounted warrior,” and how this romanticized image is frequently juxtaposed with the hardships of disease, death, and destruction brought on by the Europeans. It is also mentioned that many historians depict Plains Indians equestrianism as a typical success story, usually because such a depiction is an appealing story to use in textbooks. However, Plains Indians equestrianism is far from a basic story of success. Plains equestrianism was a double-edged sword: it both helped tribes complete their quotidian tasks more efficiently, but also gave rise to social issues, weakened the customary political system, created problems between other tribes, and was detrimental to the environment.
In a quest for family entertainment, many seek an educational experience as well. With so many choices, no one wants to waste their leisure time and money on a disappointing venture. The Chickasaw Nation Cultural Center achieves what few other venues can. Here, Native Americans envelope you on a journey of the Chickasaw people, both past and present day. From the moment you step on the impeccably landscaped grounds, you begin to feel as one with their people. Expect to be immersed into the cultures of the Chickasaw Nation, through expressive storytelling, traditional song and dance, native arts, recreated customary villages, native cuisine and historical movies in the jaw dropping, two story Anoli
The Wild West is known for its cowboys and gunslingers. In the Wild West the pistol
Texas is an intricate state with deep roots embedded in limited government authority. Almost all, Texans, favor the limited government between citizens and state. The two most important cultures in Texas are individualistic and traditionalistic culture. Individualistic views are summoned by limited government and that politics are the root of malicious acts, and is usually responded with negative reactions from the community. The individualistic cultures’ vision is egotistical for ones self-interest. The individualistic culture is viewed as priority in private independent business rather that those of the community as a whole. Unlike individualistic views, traditionalistic culture is motioned by conservatism. This cultures vision is supported by the common wealth of society’s privileged. Its beliefs are usually of distrust in its bureaucracy. Traditionalistic culture maintains an obligation to its family hierarchy. The traditionalistic subculture has a lower voting turn out rate compared to the opposition. These distinctive cultures were bestowed upon Texans in the 1800’s, when Texas was changing into a diverse and demographically society. Individualistic and traditionalistic cultures are the outline of ideology and certainty to the way Texas government is administrated. This has a huge impact on the way the Texas structures its government and why people support such a structure. And Texas is viewed as both subcultures.
...nd a man of reserve against violence. Also as a man who will stand for the good of the community, protecting those who need protecting as the Vigilante of the western frontier. The Virginian was a true cowboy hero because he was a vigilante who followed his own moral code. The cowboy’s moral code was not dictated by the laws of society because he was an independent who was working to escape civilization. The Virginian was the first of the western heroes who gave the world someone to look unto as an example. He showed a very strong moral code which had a special responsibility to the protection and respect of women such as Molly. He also had a great many skills which gave him the realistic air that made the hero’s of the west so popular in the early 1900’s as the western frontier came to a close.
Somewhere out in the Old West wind kicks up dust off a lone road through a lawless town, a road once dominated by men with gun belts attached at the hip, boots upon their feet and spurs that clanged as they traversed the dusty road. The gunslinger hero, a man with a violent past and present, a man who eventually would succumb to the progress of the frontier, he is the embodiment of the values of freedom and the land the he defends with his gun. Inseparable is the iconography of the West in the imagination of Americans, the figure of the gunslinger is part of this iconography, his law was through the gun and his boots with spurs signaled his arrival, commanding order by way of violent intentions. The Western also had other iconic figures that populated the Old West, the lawman, in contrast to the gunslinger, had a different weapon to yield, the law. In the frontier, his belief in law and order as well as knowledge and education, brought civility to the untamed frontier. The Western was and still is the “essential American film genre, the cornerstone of American identity.” (Holtz p. 111) There is a strong link between America’s past and the Western film genre, documenting and reflecting the nations changes through conflict in the construction of an expanding nation. Taking the genres classical conventions, such as the gunslinger, and interpret them into the ideology of America. Thus The Western’s classical gunslinger, the personification of America’s violent past to protect the freedoms of a nation, the Modernist takes the familiar convention and buries him to signify that societies attitude has change towards the use of diplomacy, by way of outmoding the gunslinger in favor of the lawman, taming the frontier with civility.
Texas Indians were very unique in their culture and way of life. The Texas Indians had a unique social order; physical appearance, acquired subsistence in many different ways, and had many unique cultural practice. As a result, many historians study the native Indians in Texas with awe and amazement. With a deep and interesting analysis of the Texas Indians, historians can understand the people; and their way of life. Based on the text, “La Relacion” which was written by Alvar Nunez de Vaca, an analysis of said subject can be conducted.
Over the years, the idea of the western frontier of American history has been unjustly and falsely romanticized by the movie, novel, and television industries. People now believe the west to have been populated by gun-slinging cowboys wearing ten gallon hats who rode off on capricious, idealistic adventures. Not only is this perception of the west far from the truth, but no mention of the atrocities of Indian massacre, avarice, and ill-advised, often deceptive, government programs is even present in the average citizen’s understanding of the frontier. This misunderstanding of the west is epitomized by the statement, “Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier thesis was as real as the myth of the west. The development of the west was, in fact, A Century of Dishonor.” The frontier thesis, which Turner proposed in 1893 at the World’s Columbian Exposition, viewed the frontier as the sole preserver of the American psyche of democracy and republicanism by compelling Americans to conquer and to settle new areas. This thesis gives a somewhat quixotic explanation of expansion, as opposed to Helen Hunt Jackson’s book, A Century of Dishonor, which truly portrays the settlement of the west as a pattern of cruelty and conceit. Thus, the frontier thesis, offered first in The Significance of the Frontier in American History, is, in fact, false, like the myth of the west. Many historians, however, have attempted to debunk the mythology of the west. Specifically, these historians have refuted the common beliefs that cattle ranging was accepted as legal by the government, that the said business was profitable, that cattle herders were completely independent from any outside influence, and that anyone could become a cattle herder.
When the three of us decided to use Texas as our micro-culture, I thought it was a great idea. I am not a Texan, since by definition to be a Texan, you must have been born in Texas, no exceptions (http://www.texas-best.com), but do consider myself an honorary Texan.
A typical Western would usually be set in the late 19th century in the mid-west of America in a remote town. The town is usually small, lonely and unwelcoming. Typically a western set looks like it is in the middle of a desert with sand, cacti and tumbleweed which gives a desert look, there are usually never any lakes or rivers around these features make the place look really hot and deserted. The buildings are generally timber board houses with swinging doors and outside the buildings are places to keep their horses, there is also always a General Store and a Saloon. Horses and carriages and cattle are used to give a western feel. The cowboys are typically dressed in western style clothing for example they wear simple shirts and jeans they may also wear ponchos, waist coats, hats, boots with spurs, guns and a belt to hold the gun and bullets, Hero's tend to wear lighter clothing and the villain’s tend to wear darker clothing.
The cowboys of the frontier have long captured the imagination of the American public. Americans, faced with the reality of an increasingly industrialized society, love the image of a man living out in the wilderness fending for himself against the dangers of the unknown. By the end of the 19th century there were few renegade Indians left in the country and the vast expanse of open land to the west of the Mississippi was rapidly filling with settlers.
Do you enjoy outdoor sports such as hunting, fishing, and camping? Love of the taste of barbeque and ice cold beer after a hard day's work? Pride yourself in being family oriented and patriotic? Then you’re a class A redneck. If not, what do you see when you hear the word redneck? A gun loving, deer hunting, overall wearing maniac? Or maybe you are from a family of rednecks, and its everyday to you? Usually, when you think of redneck it’s the maniac and, sadly, it has been this way for a very, very, long time. The actual textbook definition of this term is a working-class white person, especially a politically reactionary one from a rural area. It has nothing to do with being inbred, having gapped teeth, or having big guns.
This week I read Outlaw Culture by Hooks which talks about Cristopher Columbus and his colonization, or rather domination, of the Native Americans and African Americans. One of the most shocking parts of this reading was the part about how African Americans had actually visited the Americas long before Columbus ever did. Not only this, but the African Americans did not feel the need to settle this land or dominate it. They simply shared stories and goods and then returned home. Having such a peaceful interaction is unheard of in the history of white cultures. It seems like they feel they need to dominate minorities and appear superior over them in order to create a civilization. This chapter also discusses how history books seem to portray
Maryanne Kearny, Joann Crandall, and Edward N. Kearny write about the impact of the American frontier in their book the American Ways. They mention the core role of the frontier heritage in shaping the American values, and how the majority of the contemporary people tend to reveal the character of life on the frontier. Furthermore, the authors explain how the movies and the TV shows represent the cowboy as a hero, and they left behind the fact about the frontier behavior with the American Indians. Finally, the writers represent the basic values of frontier society, such as, self-reliance, inventiveness, and equality of opportunity. However, the most significant issues from the book that I would like