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John Escott has written mary books for readers of all ages, and particularly ‘enioys writing crime and mystery thrillers. He was born in Somerset, in the \west of England, but now lives in Bournemouth on the South Goast. When he is not writing, he visits second-hand bookshops, watches videos of old Hollywood films, and takes long walks along empty beaches. He has written a number of titles in the Oxford Bookworms Factfles series, including New York, California and The Ginema, He has also edapted Wiliam Tell and Other ‘Stories for Dominoes, OXFORDBEFORE READING 1 Look at these pictures from films. Which three show the Wild West best? Tick the boxes. iti rrr ae FS | ao wast, rant MAN! (0 West, young man!’ said an American newspaper Ler ne (Gin 1850. And thousands of Amer arin L rrr But people started moving to the American West nearly fifty years earlier. In 1803, American president Thomas People eed about Jefferson, bought thousands of kilometres of land from tings strappen the French for fifteen million dollars. The land was west of ns went. ry cay inthis the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains. (In Pose" today’s United States you can find Nebraska, Iowa, 252."2 Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana 4... suse there.) ee ‘The next year, Jefferson asked two men to go through this land to the Pacific. ‘When you find flowers and trees by the irra road, look carefully at them and write about them,’ jeanses Jefferson said, ‘And talk to the people, too.’ These two men (k=: were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, In May 1804, tou 2 Complete this sentence. Use a Lewis and Clark went west When | see the words ‘Wild West’ | think of November 1805 waen they arrived at the Pacific. Twente ‘These were the carly years of the ‘Wild West’. A time — yyat erp when the names Kit Carson, Sitting Bull, Wyatt Earp, “#0 Wild Bill Hickok, Butch Cassidy, Annie Oakley, and many beseme (ast became) to Begin more, became famous across America. robe ith forty-six men. It wastrail 900d across wild aunty travel 1060 Santa Fe /sents fe waigon kind of car with horses so (past sta) {otake money for something Platte ple’ mountains very bighils Western Trails ‘There were three important trails to the West, and they all began near the town of Saint Louis. In 1821, the first white man left to travel the 1,300 kilometres to Santa Fe in New Mexico. Soon, this became an important trail to the Southwest. Between 1826 and 1835, 1,500 men and 750 wagons travelled along the Santa Fe Trail, carrying shirts and trousers, knives and many more things to sell to the people of New Mexico. At the end of the 1830s, it was not easy to find work in the East, and people did not have much money. They read about the West in books and newspapers and said, “Everything is better there. Let's go West!” Early in the 1840s, thousands of families left their homes and travelled 3,200 kilometres to California and Oregon. It took them about six months. ‘The Oregon and California Trails became the two most famous trails. For the first 1,900 kilometres, the trails went across Kansas, along by the River Platte, and through the south of the Rocky Mountains. After that, the Oregon ‘Trail went north to Oregon City. From there it was not far to the Pacific, The California Trail went south to Sacramento. Families travelled along the trails in wagons or on horses. Some walked. Many became ill and died before they got near the West. Indians (now called Native Americans) killed some of them. From 1841 to the 1880s, about 350,000 people travelled to the West by these trails. Then the railroads came, and ‘most families didn’t need the trails. ‘Now we can travel by train,’ they said. ‘Wagon Trains Many families going West went with a wagon train. The ‘train’ was a number of wagons travelling together. Sometimes there were a hundred wagons carrying two or three hundred people. Horses pulled the wagons and they ‘went about twenty-five kilometres a day. ‘The first wagons were very large wagons from France. Later, families travelled in smaller wagons. Indians ative ‘americans ‘eyed Worth America bore ‘wate people alia a train ‘rave on thisskin the aside of fn animats dy Join to go with ‘gt (past tought toni somecne again and again Cheyenne (Jaen! tribe a bigamy indians Mountain Men The 1830s and 1840s were the years of the ‘mountain men’. They lived in the mountains, killed animals there, and sold the skins to make money. Sometimes they took people through the mountains. They knew the best trails, and were often good friends with the Indians. Rit Carson One of the most famous mountain men was Kit Carson. When he was seventeen, he left his home in Missouri and joined a wagon train going to Santa Fe. From there he travelled north. When he was nineteen he went to kill animals in California. It was the first of many visits to the mountains of the West. In January 1833, Carson was with about fifty mountain ‘men on the Arkansas River in Colorado. Some Indians took nine of their horses, The next day, Kit, with twelve more men, travelled more than sixty kilometres to find, fight, and kill those Indians. But he was usually a good friend of Native Americans. His first wife was an Arapaho Indian, and his second wife was a woman from the Cheyenne tribe. He had a daughter, and in 1842 he took her to Missouri because he wanted her to go to school there. On the road to Missouri, he met a man called John C. Fremont. Fremont worked for the American government, finding new trails across the West. Carson knew the land well and for the next five years he helped Fremont with his work, These years made Kit Carson famous. Later, he worked with the American army. He was an army scout in the war with the Navajo Indians. The Navajos fought with many different tribes of Indians in the West. In 1864, some of these tribes joined the ‘white man’s’ army to fight the Navajos. After the Navajos lost the war, and their land, 8,000 Navajo men, women and children went on ‘The Long Walk’ — 480 kilometres from Arizona to New Mexico. Kit Carson was fifty-nine when he died in 1868. He never learned to read. The Pony Express At first, getting letters from the East to the West of America was slow. Then, in 1860, came the Pony Express. Its horses and riders were fast. ‘They travelled from St Joseph in Missouri to Sacramento in California, Every rider travelled 120 kilometres before giving his bag of letters to the next rider, The 3,120 kilometres from St Joseph to Sacramento took twenty-six riders ten days in all, sovernment the people wha work ‘wth the president army a lorie numberof people ho fight or hele county seout 9 person \aho knows the ‘and wl and goes Intron of an army, war fing ete caunries ortribes Navajo nah pony a smal hse express very fast rider a person ‘hn goes on 8the letters to make words from Chapter 1. Then write the sentenc READING CHECK Fl [Are these sentences true or false? Tick the boxe mntye fan 1775 AgY% wanted tobe free from the British &™ Mt"? ‘Tn.wns. America. wanted tobe free from, the British government. b Do you want to bY, 2 nPFW%> That shop s\§ them American people started to go west in 1850. . il psa b The French sold a lat of land to Thomas Jefferson in 1803. oa {Lewis and Clark went through this land tothe Paci oOo} © Lincoln BG 2 the American pt; in 1860 The Santa Fe tail went tothe north-east og People travelled west in wagons and later on trains od 4 Poople bought w4' animal sK; from Kit Carson fit Carson worked forthe American government and inthe army, og {The Pony Express tok twontysx days to go from St Joseph to Sacramento, |) Our 4% found new t}84 across the 18 ese f Iwouldnt keto j%° the a™¥ and £8; ina w"y 1 Look at the sures and write the missing words. They all come from Chapter 1. 4. Those Indian £418 are from the Arapaho 18. ; Ive 8x hh itsniceto t}¥,2 on an eP8%, train When we went west we didn't take the: ton ...Kailiroad, GUESS WHAT My mother and father travelled by _- w I rode ‘The next chapter is about Native Americans and White people. Are these sentences about NA (Native Americans) ‘or WP (White people)? Tick the boxes. na we see - oes ceria Rivers, trees, and mountains were living things for them. od bb They liked to buy ar sell and of {© They lost 700 milion square kilometres of land between 1853 and 1874 oo They ony Killed animals when they needed to eat. og ce Tyg se entaoernee.the They wanted to become rich Cec They wanted to buythe Black Hil of Dakota, ofmun to Stand li rial forits meat oF shia farm a use with fad inthe aunty imine poop gt things trom under thelandhere reservation land that write men id want an favetothe Ieens MATIVE ‘esses ‘ative Americans ~ or ‘Red Indians’ — lived in North America for thousands of years before the people from Europe arrived. There were many different tribes, ‘most with different languages. Tribes had their lands for hunting, and sometimes they fought about them. But the land, the mountains, the rivers, and the trees were living things for them. The Indians understood the land. They took from it only the things they needed to live. But to the ‘white man’, land was something to buy and sell and to make money with. White men wanted to get land for their farms and mines. The United States government did not understand the Native Americans’ love of the land — its mountains and rivers. They asked Indians to give some of their lands to white men, and at first they did, But then the white men wanted more and more land, and the government moved the Indians into reservations. Between 1853 and 1874, the Indians lost 700 million square kilometres of land to the white men. The Buffalo The Native Americans hunted and killed only the animals they needed, and no more. For many tribes, the most important animal of all was the buffalo. They ate buffalo meat, and buffalo skin became trousers, dresses and shoes for them to wear, and homes for them to live in. When the Native Americans saw white men hunting and killing thousands of buffaloes, they were afraid and angry. Some wanted to fight with the white men. Sitting Bull The most famous Indian of all was Chief Sitting Bull, a Sioux Indian born in South Dakota in about 1831.He was the Sioux tribe's most famous chief. Sitting Bull did not like the white man. In 1863 soldiers attacked some of his men when they went hunting. For the next two years, an angry Sitting Bull fought with the US Army. In 1864 he took his men to fight two thousand American soldiers in the Battle of Kildeer Mountain. In 1868, some Sioux Indians moved to a big reservation in the Black Hills of Dakota. But, in 1874, somebody found gold in the Black Hills, and white men quickly moved into the hills to begin looking for more. ‘The Indians fought them, and the army could not stop the fighting. Manting buttalo eet the most importa man in sine Sloux isu) soldier 2 porson inanarmy attack to start ‘igting battle when two armies fet fold on expensive yellow metal10 message infomation hat ‘ne parson ges toanoiner In 1875, the US government asked the Sioux chiefs to meet them. They wanted to buy the Black Hills from the Indians and to put gold mines there. Sitting Bull did not go to meet the government people, but he sent them a message. ‘We do not want white men here. The Black Hills are our hills. We are ready to fight the white men for them.’ In June, 1876, Sitting Bull sent a message to all the Sioux, Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes. / “We must fight the white man!” / And 10,000 Indians got ready. Some days later, 1,000 of them fought 1,300 white soldiers in Montana. The fighting went on for six hours. When it finished and the Indians at last went away, there were only nine dead white soldiers. Alll the Sioux Indians then moved on to the Little Big Horn River. A week later, George Custer and his soldiers found them there. The Indians knew Custer well. Eight years before, in 1868, Custer and his soldiers killed over a hundred sleeping Indians — most of them women, children and old people ~ when he attacked a Cheyenne village near the Washita River. He also fought the Sioux in the Black Hills and helped to bring the gold miners there. When Custer arrived at Little Big Horn, the Sioux remembered these things and were angry. The Battle of the Little Big Horn, on June 25, 1876, was the most famous ef all Indian battles. In an hour, about 3,000 Native Americans killed Custer and his 250 soldiers. When people in the East read the story of the Little Big Horn battle in their newspapers many were very angry with the Indians for killing Custer. After the battle, Sitting Bull took his people into Canada, but in 1881 he brought them home again. By then, the US government had the Black Hills and there was nothing Sitting Bull could do about it. Later, Sitting Bull travelled to many ci Canada with Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West Show. Buffalo Bill liked the Indian chief and gave him a beautiful horse to take with him when he left the show, After that, Sitting Bull went home to live quietly for some years. At about that time some of the Indians began to say ‘Our dead men are coming back, and the white man is going to leave our land’. The army did not like this. In 1890, they tried to stop these new Indian beliefs by killing about 200 Sioux men, ‘women and children in a battle in South Dakota. Sitting Bull did nothing to stop the new beliefs in his tribe, On December 14, 1890, police officers went to get him. There was a fight, and Sitting Bull died in it. iesin America and show something that you wate balof something that pple thik istwe police oficer 2 Poleman or Polewoman The Battle of the Lite Big Horn "READING CHECK 2. Use the words in the Indian head-dress to complete the sentences. Indians were free to move about the land before ‘they went to live in Choose the right words to finish the sentences. a Police. officers... killed Sitting Bull 1. one language. 1 nowhite men or gold mines a da 6 Once thousands of lived wild in North 2. different languages. x inthe Blok Hil rae 3 English Ciaie 20a alial shea en . Sitting Bull was a famous Indian 3 to sellthe Black Hills white people found inthe Black b The US governmont aoked 0 the US government § mea to the US ge Y a Hills of Dakota. 1 Indians to give land to white people. [] | 2 white people to give endl indians, Ct Te Indians killed Custer | {Indian men learnt te animals when 2 ieee Ei ee atte ig Horn because they were young bore. white people to lve near Indians 41 they id ke any white men, People build to get gold from © Indians killed buffaloes 2 Guster did many bad things | the land, 1 tostpwnte peone geting them, (‘toto ndians Q Soares a 2 because they liked kiling 1 theywere bad and he was good | oe tee = i usually fight with guns. for their skin and meat. O ¢ ‘Sitting Bull died in i Inthe past indians sometimes isthe cave Oats 1 afight with some policemen, wagon trans. faces [2 amacident in Buftalo | te Indians sent smoke across many kilometres 2° Arapaho tribe. o a eet Qg 1 People in the east of America liked seeing Wild West oo Fy atattewitnthe USarmy. | GUESS WHAT WORD WORK ‘The next chapter is about good men and bad men. What are you going to read about? Tick the boxes. a 1 Complete the puzzles with Indian names Yes No cease ae a. There were detective offices in the Wild West. jo. bb These offices were never far when people needed them, Cec Name the chet. | @ There were often fights between men in Wid West towns. oo 4: Inthe Wild West good men and bad men were usully not very afferent. | C]_ Name the bate {Hollywood fms always tell the true story of what happened : inthe Wa West Cae 8crime tiling someane of faking money rom aw tho rule thet say whet people rust or must nt Abitene /ebollin! cowboy a man who looks ater dun a person can faht wih is amb to pay {ames for money THE ua THE GON then the first people moved from towns in the East to We West, there was a lot of crime. Later, when at last the law arrived in the West, the law offices and lawmen were often eighty kilometres or more away. So people often had to fight crime without the help of the law. Abilene and Dodge City were two towns famous for crime. Cowboys came here with their guns and their money after weeks on the trail. They drank and gambled and some men died in fights. ‘There was crime in the towns near gold mines, too, and people in the East began to call the West the ‘Wild West’. And it was wild. The Pinkertons Allan Pinkerton came from Scotland to Chicago in 1842, and started Pinkerton’s Detectives, ‘We never sleep’, it said on the front window of every Pinkerton’s office. This and their picture of an open eye got them the name ‘Eyes’. And this later gave the name ‘private eye" to any detective not working for the police. Allan Pinkerton The Pinkertons became famous in 1861. In that year Allan Pinkerton learned that some men wanted to kill President Abraham Lincoln, and he stopped them. 5Mins law stageooach akin fous wth horses Seputy a person who helps someone sheriff person ‘ao looks afer the Taina town inthe Usk 1S marshal the hea ofthe police inact the USA Wyatt Earp One of the West's most famous lawmen was Wyatt Earp. He was born in Illinois, and had four brothers — Virgil, Morgan, James and Warren. When Wyatt was sixteen years old, his family moved to California. He worked on the railroad, and he was a buffalo hunter and a stagecoach driver, Then Wyatt went to Wichita and became a city police officer there. His brother James lived in Wichita. In 1876, Wyatt moved to Dodge City, Kansas, and was a police officer there for two years. In that time, he met the famous Wild West gunman Doc Holliday. In 1878, Earp left Dodge City and travelled to New Mexico and California. Then in 1879 he went to live in the wild Arizona town of Tombstone, famous for its gold mines — and for crime. Soon after, Doc Holliday, and Wyatt's two brothers Morgan and ‘Warren arrived in the town. In July 1880, Wyatt became deputy sheriff. His brother Virgil was a deputy US marshal. Then, in 1881, a big fight made the Earp brothers famous across the West. Myatt Earp ‘The famous guniight at the OK Corral happened on October 26, 1881. The fight was between the Earp brothers and a gang of criminals called the Clanton Gang. On the afternooa of October 26, Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp, and Doc Holliday killed three of the Clanton Gang at the OK Corral. Virgil was the first to shoot. He killed one man. Dee shot and killed a second man, and Wyatt and Morgan shot and killed a third. Two men got away. In the gunfight, the Clanton Gang shot Morgan, Virgil and Doc but they did not die. They didn’t hit Wyatt at al. The shooting took half a minute. In the film Gunfight at the OK Corral, Wyatt, his brothers and Doc Holliday are good men fighting for the law. But today, some people say the gunfight was a fight between two gangs of criminals corral cavioys Put cows inthis to Stop them running stand 2 number of people who ‘workon were criminal 9 person who does somthing hat Is agant the aw shoot (oast shot) torah wih gun ‘unnght at the (0K corral 7f 2 Find words in the cowboys tombstone R ree to complete the sentences. Correct the mistakes in these sentences. Killing someone isa ©inne. lev2 The Datons were ¢ Alan Pinkerton started Pnkerton's Detectives in 3824 | ” b He came to America from Ireland. © Wyatt Earp was @ @ He at me It said We never lose’ on every Pinkerto's Detective ofc. but hear it me © Virgil Earp was @. Pinkerton’ Detectives didn't stop @ man from kiling President Lincoln in 1861 eee f ‘@ Wyatt Earp had five brothers. Wyatt Earp worked as a gold miner in Wichita, and Dodge City. Wyatt Earp, two of his brothers, and Doc Holliday Killed three men on September 28, 1881 | WORD WORK 1. These words don't match the pictures. GUESS WHAT ‘The next chapter is about another Wild West lawman and a criminal gang. What are you going to read about? Tick the boxes. Correct them. {B) corral | OOOOODD pach Stagecs Anant in Pony Express offi ‘Aman shooting a sverff in the back of the head, A sheriff making his horse the deputy sheriff Criminals taking money from a train. ‘eriminal shooting a detective. A detective dying atter drinking a cup of coffee. Detectives killing a nine-year-old boy. OOOOOO0 8 18manager the ‘most important person in anofoe Moconies ‘ino keno! WHEY ain GUNMEN Wild Bill Hickok James Butler Hickok was one of the West's most famous gunfighters. He always carried two guns, and could shoot well with his left or his right hand ‘After his father died, James took his father's name, Bill. It became ‘Wild Bill’ after he was in a fight with a number of men in 1861. Hickok got work with the Pony Express in one of their offices in Nebraska. A manager and a third man worked with him. On a July day in 1861, a man called Dave McCanles came to the Pony Express office with two friends. McCanles spoke to the Pony Express manager and got angry with him, A fight started. In the fight Hickok and the two Pony Express men shot MeCanles and his friends dead. Four years later a writer wrote about the shooting and about ‘Wild Bill’, Not many of the things he wrote were true, but people loved reading them and the book sold well. More stories about ‘Wild Bill’ appeared later and Hickok was always called Wild Bill after that. ite Bit Hickok “Diamond Dik, 9 Myton Diagram in Ne Fo hi Library Wild Bill joined the army and was an army scout for a killed a gambler. Dave Tutt, in the street in Springfield, Missouri Hickok was a gambler, too, and he didn't like Tutt. When he was about seventy metres away, Hickok shouted, ‘Don't come any nearer, Tutt!’ But Tutt took out his gun and began shooting. He didn't hit Hickok, but Hickok killed Tutt with one shot. In August 1869, Hickok became sheriff of Ellis County, Kansas. He killed two men there, and then a month later became marshal at Hays City, Kansas. In 1871, he moved to Abilene to become marshal there. Hickok kept the law with his guns and his knife. After leaving Abilene, he worked with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for a short time. On August 2, 1876, a man came into a saloon in Deadwood City, South Dakota. He shot Hickok in the back of the head and killed him, wc) WK B'S Last Trai saloon a pace where ombays vento dink 22 bank people put money and fepenive things here robbery en crminals ake money leader the most Important person esse si! rob totoke Something thats rot yours rom 2 place ei war 0 yor between two ria rom one eeurtry rash to ht Sormething and stop sudden Frank and Jesse James In February, 1866, a gang of twelve riders arrived at the front door of a bank in Liberty, Missouri. They took $57,000 from the building and killed a young man in the street when they rode out of town. It was the first daytime bank robbery in America. Frank James was the leader of the gang. Soon after this, Frank's brother Jesse joined the gang. Jesse was the younger of the two brothers, but he soon became the leader. Frank and Jesse James were the first criminals in America to rob banks and trains. In the American Civil War the brothers fought for the South — killing, and robbing banks and trains in the North. After the war they worked on the family farm for a short time. But between 1866 and 1882, the gang robbed seven trains, twelve banks and five a stagecoaches. ts In 1873 the gang robbed a train in Towa. They pulled up the railroad and the train crashed. The driver died. ‘The gang took all the bank money from the train, then went on to rob the people on the train. In 1874 a Pinker‘ons’ detective went after the criminals, but Jesse shot him. After this, the Pinkertons wanted to get Jesse for killing their detective. Frank and Jesse sometimes went back to the old family farm, The Pinkerton detectives heard about this. On a January night in 1875, some Pinkerton men went to the James's family farm. They threw a bomb in through a farmhouse window. Frank and Jesse were not there, but the bomb killed their nine-year-old brother ~ and their mother lost her hand. Frank and Jesse went on robbing banks and trains for seven more years. But on April 3, 1882, one of the gang shot and killed Jesse. Some months later, Frank walked into a lawman’s ofice and surrendered. He died at the age of seventy-two on February 18, 1915. The James gang rob a train bomb a thing that explodes noisy and can kl ape surrender to stop nigting because you canna in, _ READING CHECK WORD WORK 1 Correct eight more mistakes in the story of Bill Hickok. Use the words on the bottles to complete the shoot sentences, Kok could weite'well wit right hand. He and two Pony n Bill Hickok could wsite’well with his let or right ha two Pony Express mer Sanaa hie bank killed ten men in 1861, Four weeks later a writer put the story of Wild Bill’ and the eon | of a hotel. hooting ina book. tt was all true, but people didnt like reading it, Wild Bill Hickok later aan da iste aaa i in 1958 and fnished in Inthe Wild West people drank in became an army office. Ho shot and killed Dave Tutt, @ banker, in te street in | eevee eee rare ae ee cena ine Gt 0 the North in | Before the James trothers, American bank at Springfield, Missouri, He worked with Buffalo Bill's Show fora long time. In 1876 a man a taverns Braga tain om wa ng of criminals h Thetrain into a tree went tothe saloon and shot Hickok in the front ofthe head. nnetireos brotiers econ i 8100. J The detectives threw a ‘through the farmhouse window. 2 Choose the correct words to complete the sontences about the James brothers. Frank was(Gider younger than Jesse GUESS WHAT Jesse was gang leader before / after Frank. | Here are two of the people in the next chapter. The James brothers took money from banks and trains / hotels. | ae eee ae Frank / Jesse shat a Pinkertor’s detective, Pinkerton detectives killed Jesse's younger sister / brother. ‘Jesse's mother lost a foot / hand in the Pinkerton detectives’ attack. One of the James gang killed Jesse / Frank in 1882 Frank died when he was twenty-seven / seventy-two,Wa young chit Jall apace where opie must stay wen they do armen wrong BUTCH ann ra RIDS Billy the Kid Billy the Kid was born with the name Henry ) McCarty in New York City on November 23, "1859. He was one of the most famous criminals ; a of the American West. J) After Henry's father died, his mother took him rie v and his brother to Indiana. There she met (and HE A iser merit) wiltam antsim and Henry changed his name to ‘Billy Antrim’, The family moved to Wichita, then to Santa Fe, and then to Silver City in New Mexico, Henry's mother died there in 1874. Henry was now called Kid Antrim. He was sixteen when he went to jail for the first time. But he got out and ran away from the town, In Arizona he became a cowboy for a time on a big farm. Then he began a life of crime again. The Kid shot and killed his first man, after a fight in a saloon on August 17, 1877. Now Billy was a killer, and the lawmen were after him, The Kid got out of Arizona quickly. He went to New Mexico and people there called him Billy Bonney. In New Mexico he joined a gang of criminals, taking cows and horses from people’s farms. After the leader of this gang went to jail, Billy found work with a farmer — John Tunstall. One day Sheriff William Brady killed Tunstall in a fight. Billy and a gang of his friends found and shot Brady on April 1, 1878, Not long after this, the Kid and ten gunmen stayed in a friend’s house. The sheriff's men arrived and began shooting, but the Kid got away. On the night of December 19, 1880, Sheriff Pat Garrett found Billy and he went to jail, but he got out soon after and ran away, killing two men. On July 14, 1881, Pat Garrett and two deputies went to the home of one of Billy's friends. It was dark when Billy arrived later. Garrett was there in the dark in one of the rooms. Billy looked in and asked, ‘Who's there?” It was his, last question, Garret shot and killed him dead there and then. Billy was twenty-one years old when he died. Some say he killed twenty-one men — one for every year of his young life. ‘is frst man arbutcher's you an buy meat here Longabaugh Plonge.ba:! steal (oat sto {otake someting witout elon | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ‘These two Wild West bank robbers are very famous today because of the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, : Robert LeRoy Parker got the name WT cassidy’ trom an old criminal called Mike Cassidy. Mike Cassidy gave Parker a gun when he was young and taught him to shoot ‘After he left home, Parker worked on farms and, for a time, in a butcher's shop. From this he got the name ‘Butch’ So now he was Butch Cassidy. ‘Then Butch began taking cows and horses from people's farms, and he went to jal for this for two years, from 1894 to 1896, When he came out, he and two more men robbed a bank in Idaho. They got away with $7,000. Soon Cassidy became the leader of a gang of criminals. One of the gang was Harry Longabaugh - the Sundance Kid. When Longabaugh was seventeen he went to jail for stealing horses, but he got out and rode to Wyoming Many criminals went there in those days to get away from the law, For the next two or three years Sundance stole horses in Montana and Canada, And he met a woman called Etta Place. She soon became his lover. Then he joined Butch Cassidy's gang. Butch and his gang robbed banks and trains. One of their biggest crimes was on June 2, 1899, when the gang robbed a train of $30,000. Soon after this, the railroads asked the Pinkerton Detectives to hunt for Cassidy and his gang, Butch, Sundance, and Etta Place went to South America. They bought a farm in Argentina, and for two or three years they lived without robbing banks and trains. But then Butch and Sundance started to rob again. Etta Place went back to the USA, and the Pinkerton detectives began to look for the two criminals in South America. On November 3, 1908, Butch and Sundance robbed a Bolivian mine office. Three days later, soldiers came after them and found them in a village. There was a gunfight, What happened next? Did Butch and Sundance die? Or did they escape back to the USA and live there with different names? Nobody knows, mall Bolivian The big train robbery trom land the Sundance KidREADING CHECK Tiok the correct names. WORD WORK Use the words from the jail wall to complete the sentences. a Robert Cassidy was a Dutcher for atime bin 1885 thoy. a woman called Bella Starr for taking a horse without paying for it. © Have you got any hhorses on your land? vonunee Sell meat. @ Criminals in the USA go to Billy Bute Sundance Butch and Sundance went t0 jail FOF ...0.nn HOPS. @ Hewasa of fiteen when his mother died. ha puts criminals in jail to stop them getting away. He brings them things to eat and drink, toc. i. When a killer kills people quickly and coldly, we can say he is them, J When you say something is not true, perhaps to make people laugh, you are GUESS WHAT ‘The next chapter is atout Wild West shows and showmen. Tick your answers. (Sometimes more than one answer is correct.) ‘a How did Buffalo Bill get his name? 1. Because he looked lke a buffalo. 2 Because he came from the town of Buffalo. 3 Because he shot lots of buffalo. ooo b Who worked in Buffelo Bill's Wild West Show? 1. Chief Sitting Bull 2 Wild Bil Hickok. 3 Jesse James, 000 © What was Annie Oakley famous for? 1 Her singing. 2 Her shooting 3 Her beautiful face and hair. o00 dd What was different about Nat Love? 1. He was a Chinese American cowboy. 2 He was a Mexican cowboy. 3 He was a black cowboy. ooo 31WILD WEB? SHOWS AND SHOOTING COMPETITIONS Buttalo Bil Cody Buffalo Bill was born William Frederick Cody in Towa, in 1846. His father was a stagecoach driver. Later, Cody lived in Kansas and here the Kickapoo Indians taught him to ride a horse and to shoot a gun, When he was fifteen, Cody became a Pony Express rider in Wyoming. He once rode 618 kilometres without a stop ~more than any rider before him. He got the name ‘Buffalo Bill’ when he began to hunt and kill buffaloes for the railroads. The men building the railroads ate the buffaloes he shot, and the railroads gave him $500 a month for his work. He worked for them for eighteen months and killed about 4,280 buffaloes in this time. In July 1868, Buffalo Bill Cody became a scout for the US Army in the Indian wars. He once rode 560 kilometres through the wildest Indian country in sixty hours. Then Cody met Ned Buntline, a writer. Buntline wrote for the newspapers, and he also wrote books. He talked to Cody, and then went home to write about him. Soon after this, Buffalo Bill's name became famous across America. In 1872, Cody travelled to Chicago to be Buffalo Bill in one of Buntline’s plays about Wild West scouts. In 1876 Cody went back to the West to fight Indians with the army. After leaving the army, Cody started Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, with a number of cowboys and Indians to help him. ‘The show began in Omaha in 1883. For the next twenty-five years it travelled across the USA and went to Europe. In the shew people saw a competition for the fastest Pony Express rider, Indians attacking Custer at Little Big Horn, criminals robbing a stagecoach, a buffalo hunt, and Indians attacking a wagon train. Buffalo Bill Cody died on January 10, 1917, in Colorado. A ‘Butfote Bi’ play story thet you watch in a competition 2 fame that people tytowin 3u Phoebe (bi! ‘vin metal money Annie Oakley Annie Oakley was born on August 13, 1860, in Ohio. The name her father and mother gave her was Phoebe Ann Moses. Her father died when she was five years old. Annie shot animals to eat when she was very young. ‘Then, when she was fifteen, she started shooting in Annie Oakley competitions. Frank Butler worked in a travelling Wild West show. One day Annie shot with him in a competition —and Frank lost! Annie became Frank's wife on June 22, 1876. She changed her name to Annie Oakley and the two of them travelled round the country shooting in shows and competitions. Frank taught Annie to shoot a ten cent coin from his hand. In 1885 Frank and Annie joined Butfalo Bill’s Wild West Show. They stayed with the show for seventeen years. In the show, Annie shot a cigarette from Frank's mouth. She never made a bad shot! ‘The Sioux Indian chief, Sitting Bull, was in the Show too. He liked Annie and she taught him to write. The show went to Europe in 1887. Annie and Frank then left Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show to do ‘The Oakley and Butler Shooting Show’ in Europe's biggest cities. They went back to the USA later In 1901, Annie got hurt in a train accident. But after some months she was back at work again, this time in a play about her life. In the 1914-18 war, Annie and Frank taught soldiers to shoot. In 1921, Annie was in a car accident. After this, she and Frank moved to Ohio. She died on November 3, 1926, and Frank died three weeks later.Nat Love Nat Love was born in ‘Tennessee in 1854. Before the Civil War, he was a black slave, but after the war, all slaves became free men and women. In 1869, fifteen-year-old Nat left the South to become a cowboy. He went to Dodge City and worked with other black cowboys there. sis ayer In. 1876, Nat helped to take cows from Arizona to the {or no money gold-mining town of Deadwood, in Dakota. There, he was the ‘best shot’ in a shooting competition. After that day, people in the town called him ‘Deadwood Dick’. Later, there were many books about a man called Deadwood Dick, and Nat always said, “That writer took my name for his stories’. at Love bye LTTE A NA ci There is no Wild West today. Some of the stories about the Ane eee se noe kOR oct eS Ere MT Om ORO cer Ta SCL NMN Ue films, television, and videos38 READING CHECK ‘Match the first and second parts of these sentences. ‘@ Kickapoo Indians... 5) 1. killed buffaloes for the railroads. b Buffalo Bill (1 2... learned to read with Annie Oakley. © Nod Buntline C5... earned to shoot when she was a girl @ A buffalo hunt C4. married Annie after a shooting competition. Annie Oakley C5 taught william Gody to shoot and ride, Frank Butler C6 ....was born in Tennessee. 8 Sitting Bull (1 7....was one of the things in Buffalo Bill's Show. hh November 1928... CJ 8 .... was the name Love got after a shooting competion, i Nat Love C1 9... was when Annie and Frank died. J Deadwood Dick... [] 10 ... wrote a play about Bill Cody WORD WORK 1. Choose the correct words to complete the sentences. ‘lm /-ptas'/ show ‘a In 1872 Bill Cody was in a ...2!9... about Wild West scouts by writer Ned Buntline. Chief Sitting Bull travelled in Buffalo Bill's Wild West for a time. © Gunfight at OK Corral (1957) is @ about good men fighting forthe la. competition / war / battle Annie Oakley met her husband in a shooting The Sioux Indians killed George Custer at the of the Little Big Horn, The James brathers robbed banks and trains during the American Civil ‘money /coin / gold € Inthe show Annie shot a White men wanted to look for 1 Buffalo Bill made lots of from Frank's hand, in the Black Hills of Dakota. from shooting buffaloes. scout / slave / cowboy J When the Civil War finished, the black k. Kit Garson becamea 1 Billy the Kid was a Nat Love became a free man, for the army because he knew the land well before he joined a gang of criminals WHAT NEXT? Here are some more famous Wild West people. Who would you like te learn about? Why are you interested in them? Tick the boxes. / wy Geronimo [ The famous Apache Indian Chief He fought to free Texas from Mexico Charles Russell [) He painted great cowboy pictures Bella Starr [| The first woman horse thief in the USPROJECT A A WILD WEST LIFE 1 Choose a Wild West person from this book. Answer these questions. ‘a When and where did he or she live? 1b What did he or she do? ¢ Why did you choose him or her? 0 2 Read about Bella Starr and answer the questions on page 40. BELLA STARR (1g+8-1889) When Bella was twenty she married James Reed, a criminal When Reed Killed a man, Bella and | | her baby Pear! went with him to live in California, | Bella had different husbands, and they were aill criminals. Her house was a safe place for criminals +0 go. She was Jesse James's friend. Bella was bad but interesting. I like her because | she was a woman in a worid of men. 3 Write about the life of your person. “1PROJECT B A WILD WEST STORY 1 Match the pictures with the sentences. ‘a Inthe end he gave her a fish to eat and she was happy. [1] bb One day Mary Weston went to the river to wash her dirty clothes. ‘© She saw the young Indian, Little Owl, fishing in his canoe. She felt very frightened. Little Ow! was very frightened, too, when he saw her. [1] Write these sentences. Add a or the where necessary, and put the verbs in the past. (One day young Indian Uitte Ow! goto river to fish He see Mary Weston washing her dirty clothes on bank. He feel very frightened and she be frightened too when she see him. In end she give him cake and he be happy Look at the pictures on page 44, Tell the story of John Weston and the Indian girl, Running Water. Use these words to help you. mountains to hunt foot trap to put (something) on to take (something) out of bandageJohn Weston and Running Water