Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Law & Order
- Officials
- Marshall
- Deputy
- Tracked desert
- Town Marshal
- Town Violence
- 3 Judges
- long time to get somewhere to trial
- Unnoficial law
- Texas rangers
- Set up by Mexicans- 1820
- Vigilante comitee
- Missused power
- Get wrong person
- Miners court
- Not effective
- lawless ladies
- Bella Star
- Annie Mcdougal
- Etta Place
- Hard to Police
- Vast area
- Shortage of reliable officers
- Vigilantes
- Conflict was a way of life
- Gunslingers were dominant
- What were the Problems?
- Gold/ Mining towns
- Drinking
- Violence
- Rustling
- Gunslingers
- Jessie James
- Billie the Kid
- Sundance Kid
- Why did it improve?
- Railway
- easy transport for officials
- Quicker trials
- Telegraph
- Easier communications
- Stopped town jumping
- territories became states
- recognized by government
- Women and families came over
- Wanted to be safer
- Banned cowboys
- Cattlemen vs homesteaders
- Strayed onto eachothers land
- Fought over water
- Homesteaders lynched