Write an essay in which you present Limericks account of the problem of history to a novice, someone new to Limerick and new to the academy. You should assume that your reader has not read the section in this textbook- you will, that is, need to set the scene, to summarize, paragraph, quote, and explain. Your goal is to give your reader not only a sense of what Limerick says but an idea of why it might be important to a student in the early ages of a college or university career. When Limerick was writing about history she was writing her own depiction of it. How it was understood by Limerick, not by the norm. Most of Limericks thoughts are pretty down to earth, and dont stray wildly off the beaten path, but these thoughts are also not one hundred percent accurate. Limerick was more on the path of putting her input into the history of western expansion, not really writing an accurate history book where all his info was backed up with factual information.
Seldom are there only two parties or two points of view.” (p.505) Limerick says it herself about the way that history is looked at. Everyone has a different point from the next and everyone depicts that point of view in his or her writings. Even if two people have a common point of view and might be on similar levels of thinking, their opinions and points of view are never perfectly alike. There is always a difference between people and that is what makes them who they are. Ten bias people all see the same car accident occur, but each one of them was in a different spot and will interpret the entire event a little differently. One skill essential to the writing of Western American history is a capacity to deal with multiple points of view. (p. 504) Limerick puts a large amount of emphasizes on the innocence of the settlers moving westward, especially on the women in that group.
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“By assigning responsibility everywhere, one eliminated the need to consider one’s own participation in courting misfortune.”(p.510) I believe that Limerick is trying to back up this theory of innocence by say that all these travelers were plagued by many evils on their westward movement. Thus it wasnt their fault that something happened. Even if they just happened to set up camp in the middle of a sacred Indian burial ground. Due to their innocence they could not do anything wrong or immoral. Limerick confronted the stereotype thought of western expansion, where innocent white woman was attacked and killed by the savage Indians. The fact that the above stereotype as been embedded into the way that people view US western expansion in the 1800s.
Most of these innocent white women were missionaries sent into the west to civilize the natives that roamed the lands, and bring them the benefits of western modern civilization. The downfall of this innocence, when looked through the view of the Native Americans (Indians), was the fact that these new missionaries brought with them diseases and a overwhelming population. The simple fact that the Indians were around the western missionaries was killing them. These Indians no immunities to the disease that these missions had brought from the East. What missionaries shrugged off as a common cold, Indians was affected as if it was the bubonic plague. These original missionaries and western settlers set out in the hopes of prospering on the unsettled and unclaimed lands that lied beyond the Eastern Mountains and the eastern plains.
They trekked westward in hopes of gold and other nature resources that had in their minds been left unclaimed. What these innocent or possible arrogant settlers did not look at was the simple fact that there were people that already lived and roamed on these lands. Limerick was trying to draw a picture with her writings, that the western settlers never took the Indians prospective, they took it for granted that the western lands were their entitlement. The other overwhelming problem was the simple fact that people hoping for exclusive often arrived to find a crowd already in place.”(Pg. 507) Limerick points to the simple fact that this thought of western movement had spread like wildfire, and that everyone that wanted to prosper on it had taken up and left home, only to find a line of people all wanting the same thing. Too many easterners had moved westward too fast, and it was choking the prospective dream.
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Every western settler thought that the gold would have been lying on the ground, and there would be fertile fields as far as the eye could see. Resource rushes created a mood ofoptimism that trust came easyandnormal skepticism dropped away. (Pg. 508) Limerick goes on to show that people lost common sense when they heard of these prosperities. But when they arrived, they came to the harsh reality that it was not true. Miners resented the wasted efforts of barren sitescattlemen overgrazed the grasslandand then resented natures failure.
(pg. 507) These innocent settlers had found something to blame for their hardships, nature. These settlers were the victims of natures wrath. Limerick also looked at how settlers frustrations and blame was aimed at multiple targets. These western settlers began to target the Federal Government as the source of blame. It was the governments responsibility to control the Indians(and) to control nature.(Pg. 509) The Federal government had allotted territories in Oregon, but was in the settlers eyes, was unable to control the Oregon Indians that had already lived on these territories. Limerick notes General John Wool, who attended to settle this dispute by looking at the Indians perspective, and try to stop further settlers expansion into Oregon.
But again Limericks theory on one-sided views prevails when the western settlers in Oregon refuse to take note of General Wools thoughts. white Americans (settlers) would suspect the federal government and Indians of being in an unholy alliance.(Pg. 509) Limerick puts it best with that statement. She is showing the fact that the settlers thought of themselves only, with no thought or prospective of the Indians that had already lived on these territories. Now the innocent settlers find blame in both the government and the Indians. Limerick goes on to show that when the Federal Government did put land aside for these Indians, the settlers saw themselves as frustrated innocents, shut out by (a) monopoly.(Pg. 510) the virgin West was closed, locked up, held captive by Indians(and)had to be opened.(pg. 510) Limerick is showing the all around ignorance of these settlers that they believe that the entire west is their entitlement, and that they are the victims in the case.
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These victims even went as far as to reclaim their right during the Sagebrush Rebellion where unconstitutional laws were passed to entitle these lands to the western settlers. These rebels at least convinced Western historians of the relevance of their enterprise (takeover).
(Pg. 510) Limerick again goes to show that Western history can be morally tainted by opinion. Limerick takes a slight turn off of the above topic in section three of her writings, and decides to put her attentions on the white female pioneers(pg. 511) of the western expansion. Limerick at first looks at them as an authentic innocent victim(pg. 511) in history. Frontiers women could seem to be the tragic martyrs to their husbands willful ambitions.(Pg.
512) Limerick is beginning to ask the question of what was really womens role in the whole expansion, what really happened and what does history depict happening.
