Henry Plummer, Hero or Criminal Henry Plummer was a very interesting man and had a life full of dangerous and life threatening events. He was feared, and he was loved. But who was he? Was he a worthy hero or was he a filthy criminal? I will let you decide. Henry Plummer had a terrible death. He was hanged yet never buried. But before we get to that let's start from the very beginning. Henry Plummer was born in 1832, in Addison, Maine, the mother and father were named William Jeremiah and Elizabeth Plummer. His brothers and father were all seaman and his father was an actual sea captain. But, to the families surprise Henry was not meant to be a seaman. He was just a scrawny kid who had no interest in working on the ship that he could not …show more content…
They decided to have a duel and of course Henry won very easily. But there was a very riveting case that went to the California Supreme Court twice. Henry was sentenced to 10 years in San Quentin Prison. He met one of his friends named Cyrus Skinner who was in prison for grand larceny. Plummer was released due to his health and tuberculosis. Not long after he had little to no money and he decided to hitch on a group of bandits. The group of bandits plan was to rob stage coaches in the local area but in one circumstance the stagecoach driver got away and Plummer was once again arrested, but this time for attempted …show more content…
Which was the new site of the gold rush. But one night Henry and Jack were drinking at the Bannack Saloon and Jack began to ramble on about Plummers illegal activities and Henry was not gonna take his crap and pulled out his gun and shot him. Killing Cleveland, and making his mark in the new town of Bannack. In the middle of 1863 Bannack was booming with miners and they needed protection for their gold that they had worked hard to get and highwaymen would just steal it the next day. The town held the election for Sheriff and Plummer did run for the position but lost it too the town's butcher who was very popular in the town. Plummers anger flared up and went after the newly elected sheriff with a shotgun but a local warned him and the butcher shot Henry in the right arm. His shooting arm. He began to practice shooting with his left and began to become very accurate with it. When the sheriff heard of this he became scared and turned in his
The play takes place in Hillsboro. It is a small fictional town that is meant to resemble Dayton, Tennessee, where the Scopes trial was held in 1925.
Ellsworth was mean, and it was ugly. The stench of the its streets fell second to the odor of the unbathed saddle tramps who had just delivered 150,000 cattle from San Antonio to its freight yards. Adding to these smells were the blends of whisky, tanning leather, kerosene and carved carcasses, a revolting combination. Gunfights were spontaneous, either over a woman or a card game. When Wyatt crossed the Smoky Hill River into Ellsworth in 1873, he may have remembered the "rules of the gunman," but had no intention of employing them. The two main “rules of a gunman” were to take his time and always be armed. Although many people had warned him that it would be naive to go westward without being properly armed, Wyatt didn’t own a gun. All he hoped for was to find a peaceable job. But, only hours after hitching his horse in town he began to wonder if perhaps everyone was right. The most boisterous spot in town was Brennan’s Saloon, off Ellsworth Square; its faro and poker tables buzzed 24 hours, bartenders tapped beer and ...
George Shearer, their lawyer, is drafted to serve in the war, this issue was prevailed that period to get rid of judicial rulings. Henry spent the rest of his sentence in isolation, where his inner voice named Pachuco decides to
Not a lot is known about Henry Hudson’s personal life. What we do know is that he was married to a woman named Katherine and they had three sons together. Also, it is said the Hudson was most likely to have come from a wealthy family and apparently his grandfather discovered a trading company named the “Muscovy Company . Henry Hudson’s first voyage was made in 1607 when he was hired to find a route from Europe to Asia through the Arctic Ocean in a shorter amount of time. Unfortunately for Hudson, there was too much ice for him to complete his voyage and he had to turn back twice. In 1609, the Dutch East India Company hired him to make a third voyage. Instead of going the same way that he had in the past, Hudson decided to head east on a southern route on the Atlantic Coast. After making this journey, Hudson decided to turn back because he did not find the channel that he was looking for. Eventually, around 1610 or 1611, Hudson made his fourth and final voyage wandering through what is now the Hudson Bay. Sadly, Hudson’s voyage did not end well and that is why this was his last journey. Hudson’s crew thought that he went crazy because he was so determined to make sure he found what he was set out to be looking for; The Northwest Passage . Hudson’s crew is said to have committed mutiny and left Hudson for dead around 1611. It is unsure of how Hudson died. Some say that he died in his boat from very harsh weather c...
The gunfight at the ok Corral started and ended in thirty violent seconds, but, it must have felt like thirty minutes to the fighters. Eight people were ready to fight. On one side were Wyatt, his brothers and Doc Holliday. On the other side were the Clantons and their gang of Cowboys (horse thieves and cattle rustlers of the time). They all had no intention of being disarmed. Frank McLaury, a Cowboy, had the best aim of the group. He was shot by Wyatt and was the first to die. Everybody started fighting. In the end, almost all the cowboys died, Ike Clanton begged for his life and was thrown in jail. Morgan Earp was shot in the shoulder. Virgil Earp was shot in the leg. Doc was shot in the hip. Only Wyatt came out unharmed.
The film begins in Fort Griffin, Texas with "Doc" Holliday in trouble after he killed a man in a saloon. Although it was clearly self-defense, a lynch mob gathered to hang Doc. This is when Wyatt Earp sets up a distraction and arranges for Doc Holliday's escape. Doc felt he was in great dept to his savior and wound up in Dodge City, Kansas, where Wyatt is marshalling. After some talk between the two, Earp decides to let the notorious killer stay in his town as lonf as he promised no killing. This segment marked the beginning of their friendship when, according to Dee Brown Doc saved Wyatt's life from a bunch of rustlers in the Long Branch Saloon. Kate, Doc's on and off girlfriend, on the other hand suggested that the friendship started on their trip west since Earp accepted Doc's tuberculosis, a disease many did not understand and were frightened of.
Mapes, the white sheriff who traditionally dealt with the black people by the use of intimidation and force, finds himself in a frustrating situation of having to deal with a group of black men, each carrying a shotgun and claiming that he shot Beau Boutan. In addition, Candy Marshall, the young white woman whose family owns the plantation, claims that she did it. As each person tells the story, he takes the blame and, with it the glory.
Henry Spearman is not a normal person. Whenever he meets someone new he scrutinizes them from head to toe economically; not with a moral point of view like most people. He lives with his wife Pidge. He goes on a vacation to a resort in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. There, retired General Hudson T. Decker is found dead due to poisoning. As the local police investigate, Henry Spearman decides that the police are inadequate with their search and he decides to take matters into his own hands. Detective Franklin Vincent is unsuccessful in his search for the suspect as he chases leads that always end up being redirected to nowhere. Another murder
Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday, and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral were they really fighting for justice or revenge. In the attempt to serve “justice” they blurred the lines of the system to their gain. This essay is prove a point that the marvelous western hero lived a much darker live fueled by revenge, bribes, and gambling.
Who was Doc Holliday? Was he just an old western figure who went down in history to be remembered as a famous gunman and gambler who was apart of the legendary shootout at the O.K. Corral, or was he more?
Throughout the ages, men and women have been at the heart of myths and legends, evolving into tragic heroes in large part due to the embellishment bestowed upon them over the ages. From Odysseus and Achilles to Brutus, Hamlet, and King Lear, epic poems have revolved around the tragic hero. Pat Tillman was a man of many aptitudes and virtues, never satisfied by the mediocre, striving for more adventure, more meaning, in his tragically short time on Earth, and personifying the phrase carpe diem. Even Pat Tillman had tragic flaws; his unwillingness to be typical, his undying loyalty to family and country, and his curiously concrete set of morals amalgamated to set in motion Tillman’s eventual death. These, whatever the outcome might have been, are not by any means, the archetypical tragic flaws. They are, as Jon Krakauer later described, “tragic virtues.” Where Men Win Glory is not solely a tribute to Pat Tillman. What makes it truly unique is its exhaustively comprehensive history preceding Tillman’s death, and equally essential, the events that transpired following his death, including the cover-ups, scandals, corruption, falsified documents, indignities, and lies that facilitated, also, in emphasizing the core themes, of which Tillman was the epitome. Tillman’s fidelity and devotion to the people whom he loved, the use of misinformation and cants surrounding his death, and others’ responses to what Tillman considered paramount in his life all played a key role in the tragedy of a man who won glory.
Unfortunately, the horse gets out, and Henry puts all of the blame on her, as he then beats her with the rope. Surprisingly, the conning Texas man is disturbed by this, so he offers Henry his money back for the horse, but he refuses. It becomes a matter of principle and power for Henry. The story goes on, and a horse ends up in the house of Mrs. Littlejohn. It finally emerges, but ends up flipping over the wagon of Vernon Tull. In the midst of all the madness, Henry’s leg gets broken. Will Varner comes to the rescue and helps to somewhat mend his leg. What is odd about all of this happening is that Flem Snopes is nowhere to be found when he is essentially the cause of it all. Inevitably, Flem returns. Earlier in the story, Henry refused to take his five dollars back, but after everything went down, she thought, surely, that she could get it back. All the while she was debating asking him, she was complaining to Mrs. Littlejohn, and in return, she became quite annoyed. Her comic, yet sinister, response is “…Henry can buy another five-dollar horse with it. Maybe he’ll buy one next time that will out and out kill him. If I thought that, I’d give you back the money, myself” (Faulkner). When Flem re-emerges, it seems like everyone is taunting him, mostly the Snopeses themselves, about what had happened because they basically tell him he got what was coming to
A few years ago the widow Douglas’ husband has Injun Joe “horsewhipped” in front of the whole town. On Page 186, Injun Joe states, “her husband was rough on me -- many times he was rough on me -- and mainly he was the justice of the peace that jugged me for a vagrant. And that ain’t all. It ain’t a millionth part of it! He had me horsewhipped! -- in front of the jail,”. Huck is afraid he wants to murder the widow because her husband was so rough on Injun Joe. On Page 186, Injun Joe continues, “Kill? Who said anything about killing? I would kill him if he was here; but not her. When you want to get revenge on a woman you don’t kill her -- bosh! You go for her looks You slit her nostrils -- you notch her ears like a sow!” After Huck learns what Injun Joe is planning on doing to the Widow Douglas, he runs to get help from the welshman. Huck saves the widows life and risks Injun Joe wanting more revenge on
Tom falls in love with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get “engaged” to him. Their romance collapses when she learns that Tom has been engaged before—to a girl named Amy Lawrence. Shortly after being shunned by Becky, Tom accompanies Huckleberry Finn, the son of the town drunk, to the graveyard at night to try out a “cure” for warts. At the graveyard, they witness the murder of young Dr. Robinson by the Native American “half-breed” Injun Joe. Scared, Tom and Huck run away and swear a blood oath not to tell anyone what they have seen. Injun Joe blames his companion, Muff Potter, a hapless drunk, for the crime. Potter is wrongfully arrested, and Tom’s anxiety and guilt...
Mark Twain’s 1884 novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is the story of a young boy, Huckleberry Finn, who lives in St. Petersburg, Missouri, along the banks of the Mississippi River, and essentially desires to become his own person and live the way he wants. In the beginning of the story, Huck is being “sivilised” (Twain 1) by a widow named Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. Huck feels restricted by the manners, schooling, and overall “righteousness” he is being fed. To combat this, he often sneaks out with friends (one of which is Tom Sawyer) to partake in “robbery” (even though the gang never actually commits unlawful crime). Eventually, Huck’s frequently-drunk father, Pap, kidnaps Huck from the widow, as he is quite interested in some money Huck has come into due to his previous adventures with Tom, and takes him to a cabin across the river where drunken beatings of the boy are a regular occurrence.