The homestead act was an act made that said that a person can have 160 acres of land for free. One condition is that they grow it and make it thrive. In the picture, the man standing by the horse says he doesn't believe the amount of land they are getting for nothing. All they have to do it grow it.
Harvey Houses
Hello welcome to the Harvey house what can I do for you today
One of the impacts that the railroad had was that it was used to carry gold to places far away. It was also used to also carry trading goods and other uses. In this picture, the mining cart is carrying gold and mining tools to a different destination.
Tourism
later on, the towns in the west blew up in population and growth. That's why it's called the boomtown. A bunch of people came to these towns and stayed there. Mining was also a big thing at the time. This picture shows the excitement of the people in the towns and there was stores and gold and lots of people there
Wildwest
Before the Boom
The Harvey houses were located next to the railroads. Because when people rode the railroads they wanted something close so they were close to getting more customers. The Harvey Houses only hired girls because they were polite. In this picture, the girl is only wearing black and white and is very polite and the man is complementing her.
yes could I get a room and can I just say I love you politeness. And could I also get soomething to eat
Tourism was a big part of when the town boomed. People would come from across the US. For different reasons like mining and to see the town. In this picture, there are different shops and show that people go to see. A guy is doing a magic show and the other guy is selling donuts
Come and get your fresh donuts here
Sure what do you got!
Would you like to see a magic trick?
When the supplies and the cool stuff weren't cool or they ran out the people and the tourism would run out and people didn't care. What happened was that the criminals would go there and there was no law because there weren't enough lawmen. So you would get killed for the littlest of things. In this picture, the guy got shot because he ate his food. It happened for the littlest things. That's why the picture doesn't have a lot of people because this place was scary.
You come into my town and eat my food. Thats treason around here
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