Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer was born in April 27, 1820 and died December 8, 1903. He was an English philosopher, a biologists, an anthropologists, a sociologists, and a political theorist all wrapped up in one man. Herbert Spencer was an enthusiast of human evolution in every way, mind, biology, and even human cultures and societies. Spencer is best known for the expression "survival of the fittest'' which he did in principles of biology a book he wrote in 1864.

   Although Spencer had many great accomplishment he did have a life of his own as well, as a young man Spencer worked as a civil engineer during the railroad construction in the late 1830's. He also took his free time to write journals. From 1848 to 1853 he serves as sub-editor on the free-trade journal ''the economists.''

    

Life in the railroad camps.

                                   Life in the Railroad Camps

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life in the camps where hard sometimes you would finish setting  up a temporary bar only to take it down then set it up 20 miles west or north from there only to set it up and take it down again. Entrepreneurs followed these railroads to make money off the idle railroad workers from a bar to a barber to a brothel. tons of money was made and these entrepreneurs made it easier for workers building the railroads. Boom towns as they called it where towns set up by entrepreneurs and when the railroad stop bringing in money the town went broke and people moved to the next boom town to make more money. In 1869 true chaos broke out when a large group of shopkeepers and railroad workers declare war to form there own group and hung a vigilante called "the kid" they later started to hang almost all criminals in the area of the railroad construction getting criminal after criminal until the kids gang retaliated and broke out into an all out battle in the streets of a boom town, it was criminals versus shopkeeper and railroad workers, the criminals lost and many where hung and the rest where chased from towns and hunted down.

By: Sean Marbell

Life in the camps

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