Law and Order

The end of the Wild West

James Younger Gang – Jesse James

John Wesley Hardin

Billy the Kid

Bill Tilghman

Dalton Gang

The Wild Bunch

Wyatt EarpDoc Holliday Virgil EarpMorgan Earp

Clanton and McCleary Brothers

Wild Bill Hickok

WALT (What am I learning today)

• What the Johnson County War was.• What ended the ‘wild west’

WILF (What am I looking for)

Be able to explain with critical analysis how the wild west was tamed.

A few might

Be able to explain in some detail how the wild west was tamed.

Most could

Be able to identify simply some of the ideas how the wild west was tamed.

All Should

Task 1 (Time 15 mins)

• One of the big events of the west was the Johnson County War in Wyoming.

• You are to read through the section on pg. 79 to pg. 80.

Answer the following questions:

3. What started the Johnson County War?4. Why did it go all wrong for the Barons?5. Why might it not be considered a war after all?6. Look at source A and Source B. Why are there

such different views of Ella Watson?

End of the Wild West Task

• Use page 81 and create a letter pretending you are a Homesteader in the west and you are writing to your family still living in the east. You are explaining how the west is no longer violent despite all the news about the Johnson County War.

Extension Task

Does the Wild West deserve such a romantic image as given in films such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?