Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Life in the railroad camps.
Life in the Railroad Camps
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-hell/
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
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Capitalization and spell check needed here and there, but overall very good! I'm shocked that all the rebellion and chaos was happening during this time. What impact did this behavior have on progress?
ReplyDeleteGood information! You did a good job explaining how the railroad workers lived and how the railroads brought commerce to towns and expanded the country.Where did all of the criminals come from?
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