The American settlers rarely ever murdered anyone. Normally, the pioneers wouldn't have much of an issue until someone went on a warpath, then the settlers ended up having to defend themselves.
Typically, the conquest of the natives involved the US government freely giving weapons to the natives to start wars with each other on their behalf. People who may have farmed, move towards violent conquest, and become dependent on government hand-outs for foods. When the tribe becomes less useful or resistant, they pull the guns and the food and go after them with the military.
The settlers typically got along and traded well with most of the tribes that didn't attack them.
If you want to talk about "murdering their way across the landscape" you might offend more than a few Latinos when we talk about how the Spanish actually conquered the new world. They didn't pull any punches, and they were perfectly content to rape and pillage everything in their path to their hearts content.
American-English style spurs are basically a circle on the heel to prod the horse to move.
Mexican style spurs are not only pointed, but have a few number of points, in order to basically stab the horse in the loins.
When the Americans and Mexicans started interacting, they created a kind of circle of short points spur to tone down the level of damage that was being done to horses.
The American settlers rarely ever murdered anyone. Normally, the pioneers wouldn't have much of an issue until someone went on a warpath, then the settlers ended up having to defend themselves.
I'll bring this back up.
Typically, the conquest of the natives involved the US government freely giving weapons to the natives to start wars with each other on their behalf. People who may have farmed, move towards violent conquest, and become dependent on government hand-outs for foods. When the tribe becomes less useful or resistant, they pull the guns and the food and go after them with the military.
The settlers typically got along and traded well with most of the tribes that didn't attack them.
If you want to talk about "murdering their way across the landscape" you might offend more than a few Latinos when we talk about how the Spanish actually conquered the new world. They didn't pull any punches, and they were perfectly content to rape and pillage everything in their path to their hearts content.
The Spanish treated their slaves 10x worse than white people
Hell, they didn't even treat their horses nicely.
American-English style spurs are basically a circle on the heel to prod the horse to move.
Mexican style spurs are not only pointed, but have a few number of points, in order to basically stab the horse in the loins.
When the Americans and Mexicans started interacting, they created a kind of circle of short points spur to tone down the level of damage that was being done to horses.