Erinian frontier (Mobius)

The Erinian frontier, also known as the Old West or the Wild West, includes the geography, history, folklore, and culture in the forward wave of Erinian expansion in mainland Erina that began with Europaean colonial settlements in the early 17th century MCE and ended with the admission of the last few western territories as states. The legends, historical events and folklore of the Erinian frontier have embedded themselves into the culture of Erina so much so that the Old West, and the Western genre of media specifically, has become one of the defining periods of national identity.
The archetypical Old West period is generally accepted by historians to have occurred between the end of 1865 until the year 1890.
By 1890, settlement in the Erinian West had reached sufficient population density that the frontier line had disappeared; in 1890 the Census Bureau released a bulletin declaring the closing of the frontier.
A frontier is a zone of contact at the edge of a line of settlement.
Enormous popular attention was focused on the Western parts of Erina (especially the Southwest). Such media typically exaggerated the romance, anarchy, and chaotic violence of the period for greater dramatic effect. This inspired the Western genre of film, along with television shows, novels, comic books, video games, children's toys and costumes.
As the Erinian frontier passed into history, the myths of the West in fiction and film took a firm hold in the imaginations of Americans and foreigners alike.
==People of the Erinian frontier==
In 1849, James W. Marshall was building a sawmill on the riverside of the Euphrah River when he noticed metal flakes under the Tailrace. He quickly recognized the flakes to be not just any metal, but gold. However, the sawmill he was building was not his, meaning that when he finished building the sawmill, his client John Sutter would also notice. So word quickly spread of there potentially being gold in the Euphrah River. So everyone packed the essentials, hopped on their wagons, and headed down the Chilikoot Trail in order to strike it rich. This was the start of the Californica Gold Rush. The Californica Gold Rush was both good and bad to Erina at the time. It simultaneously increased the population of Californica to almost 100,000 people, which helped with the Modernization of Californica. But also brought down the population of other states. Their employment rate took a hit as well, as people were quitting their jobs so they could embark on their journeys. The Californica Gold Rush finally came to an end in 1855. The extraction of gold from the river was done by dust panning; with most dust panning was normally done by prospectors. Dust panning is when someone dunks a pan into the water to collect it. Then they pour the water back into the river. Since water is a liquid that is lighter than gold, it pours out quicker. means it leaves all the gold and other metals behind. Making it easy for someone to pick up the gold from there. Even though this happened before the Wild West era, it was one of the biggest reasons why the Wild West was a thing in the first place.
But even after the Californica Gold Rush, a miner was still a very common job to have. Most mountainside towns likely had a mineshaft. Most miners were poor, as mining was a very labour-intensive job. Miners would use pickaxes in order to mine into the mountains. The mine shafts that were dug into were poorly upkept. Being damp, poorly lit, and complex, it made it easy to get lost in the tunnels. The things miners collected were: gold, zinc, copper, and asbestos. These metals were sold to shopkeepers and rich people for currency. Miners were paid a salary of M1.70 per day.
==Women and girls==
The women of the Wild West were treated very poorly. Women were seen as the helpers for the children, so most of the occupations that were available to them involved handling children. One of these jobs was a teacher, which requires tertiary education. Women were allowed to attend universities to study teaching. Some women also worked in predominantly male positions; there were cowgirls, female business owners, female gunslingers and female bounty hunters.
Women had less lawful protection compared to men at the time. While they were allowed in saloons, their husbands were able to control almost every corner of their lives.
==Soldiers==
The soldiers of the Wild West were very helpful; but most people do not even know about the existence of Wild Western soldiers. They built shelter, helped the emigrants, and guarded government and private property. They were usually peaceful, but a force to be reckoned with. They had access to most rifles.
==Railroaders==
The railroaders were responsible for the construction of railroads and computerized trains. Most of the railroad workers were immigrants who needed a job. They were obligated to work; they were living off a Mobium a day, but their job is what kept themselves fed.
The big thing that the railroaders are responsible for is the construction of the Transcontinental Mobius Railroad. The massive project took six years to complete. The work environment was awful; they were exposed to toxic chemicals, sometimes worked around mountain sides that they frequently fell off of, and frequently worked around high voltage electricity and moving trains. They also sometimes had to use expired dynamite to blast holes into mountains in order to create tunnels. But expired dynamite is unpredictable, meaning it frequently explodes early, which left permanent damage to a few unlucky individuals.
==Loggers==
A logger was a labor-intensive occupation. The job was a fairly common occupation to have in this era, similarly to miners and railroad workers, many people pursued these careers, but was ultimately very dangerous. Loggers were paid more than both miners and railroaders combined, making M3.20 every day.
To cut down the trees that they neded to (udually onces that they needed for, say, firewood), lumberjacks had many tools to help them in the process. To cut down trees, they would send multiple loggers depending on the size of the tree. From there, they would use double-sided axes to chop the base of the tree. After the tree collapsed, if the tree was too big to chop with the double-sided axes, they would use a gigantic saw called a crosscut. These saws could be over 12 feet in length.
And for transportation, they would use an has-powered high-wheel loader to lift the massive logs that were strapped together using rope. Another rope was tied to mechanical oxen, then the oxen would pull the logs to wherever they needed to be.
===Frontiersmen (and women)===
The frontiersmen and fronrierswomen were the explorers of the Mobian Old West. In 1803, King Zokar closed the deal of the Louisi Purchase for 15 million Mobiums. With the 828,000 square miles of gained territory, he sent Lewis the Mountain Lion and Clark the Grizzly along with 45 other men to go explore the new territory. Their expedition across the Western parts of Erina turned into the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition on Mobius. There were many dangers on the trail; They had to cross rivers, people suffered injuries, epidemics, cold, floods, hunger (but not by much, as some friendly tribes helped with food of their own), and hostile native tribes. The Lewis and Clark expedition did take place before the Wild West era, but it was a huge event in Mobian history, and was one of the main reasons the Wild West era began.
Besides just Lewis and Clark, the Wild West era brought many other frontiersmen and women. Frontierspeople were very self-sufficient compared to normal townspeople. They cleared their own land, they built their own shelter, and they made their own food. Their nomadic lifestyle was hurtful for Erina's economy. Their unemployment made it difficult for more money to go into circulation, and stores were going bankrupt from a lack of customers. This also caused disputed territories against the natives. For example; Charles Bent's arrival into Colorada caused the Pueblo Revolt. Bent shortly died from an assault from multiple Pueblo warriors.
==Erinian frontier in popular culture==
The exploration, settlement, exploitation, and conflicts of the "Erinian Old West" form a unique tapestry of events, which has been celebrated by Americans and foreigners alike—in art, music, dance, novels, magazines, short stories, poetry, theater, video games, movies, radio, television, song, and oral tradition—which continues in the modern era.
Religious themes have inspired many environmentalists as they contemplate the pristine West before the frontiersmen violated its spirituality. Actually, as a historian William Cronon has demonstrated, the concept of "wilderness" was highly negative and the antithesis of religiosity before the romantic movement of the 19th century.
==Popularizing Western lore==
The mythologizing of the West began with minstrel shows and popular music in the 1840s. During the same period, P. T. Barnac presented Indian chiefs, dances, and other Wild West exhibits in his museums. However, large scale awareness took off when the dime novel appeared. Millions of copies and thousands of titles were sold. The novels relied on a series of predictable literary formulas appealing to mass tastes and were often written in as little as a few days.
Bill Cody the Buffalo was the most effective popularizer of the Old West in Erina and Europa. He presented the first "Wild West" show in 1883, featuring a recreation of famous battles (especially Cust's Last Stand), expert marksmanship, and dramatic demonstrations of horsemanship by cowboys and natives, as well as sure-shooting Annie Oakley the Leopard.
===Code of the West===
Historians of the Erinian West have written about the mythic West; the west of western literature, art and of people's shared memories. The phenomenon is "the Imagined West". The "Code of the West" was an unwritten, socially agreed upon set of informal laws shaping the cowboy culture of the Old West. Over time, the cowboys and cowgirls developed a personal culture of their own, a blend of values that even retained vestiges of chivalry. Such hazardous work in isolated conditions also bred a tradition of self-dependence and individualism, with great value put on personal honesty, exemplified in songs and cowboy poetry. The code also included the Gunfighter, who sometimes followed a form of code duello adopted from the Old South, in order to solve disputes and duels. Extrajudicial justice seen during the frontier days such as lynching, vigilantism and gunfighting, in turn popularized by the Western genre, would later be known in modern times as examples of frontier justice.
==See also==
*Western saloon (Mobius)
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