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The West was not entirely made up of gunfighters and cowboys. As boomtowns popped up all over the West and the Homestead Act made it possible for farmers to own their own land, entire wagon trains full of hopeful dreamers headed out west through such famous passages as the Oregon Trail. These isolated towns often attracted outlaws and thieves and it became common for such families to arm themselves, much as the gunfighters and cowboys did. A mail delivery service operated between Missouri and California in the early 1860's. When frontier settlers arrived in the unorganized territory know as the West, they brought with them federal, state and local laws. INSETS: Untitled;Untitled;Untitled;Untitled |
