Description - American Wild West by Ruth Naumann
In 1858 President Buchanan said the United States would some day be bound East and West by a chain of Americans which could never be broken. Although the Civil War was shortly to divide North and South, at this time a major division was still the Mississippi Line, which separated the settled East from the Wild West. The settling of this Wild West was one of the most important movements of people ever, helping to shape distinctive American attitudes and create a society that a journalist from the East described as 'the broadest, freest, most active and aggressive society that the world has yet developed'. Although vastly different in size, there were a lot of similarities to New Zealand: the restless energy of the 19th Century emigrants; the meeting of two cultures; one new arrived, the other having been there a long time; the white belief that it was the Indian's destiny to die out and the white's to smooth the passage of his dying; the disputed and broken treaties that led to war; the different attitudes to resources causing conflict and redistribution; the determination of the native people to fight for their hunting grounds and traditional way of life; the changes to the physical landscape as the westward push continued.
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