"Jews in the Wild West" Topic

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Tango01	04 Feb 2017 2:56 p.m. PST
"The Wild West isn't usually thought of as a home to Jews, yet early Jewish Americans lived there and left their marks. Here are some surprising ways Jews helped shape the American Frontier. Several Thousand Jews America's western regions in the 1800s were home to thousands of Jews. An 1878 survey by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations -- the only such census in that era -- found that 230,257 Jews then lived in the United States including 21,465 in 11 western states and territories. Some historians feel the actual number of Jews in the West was even higher. Historian Mitchell Gelfand, for example, notes that the survey didn't even include the fledgling city of Los Angeles, then home to 418 Jews. The Arizona Territory was also omitted from the survey, though modern scholars estimate that thousands of Jews lived in Tucson, Phoenix, Tombstone, and other towns during that era.,," Main page link Amicalement Armand
vtsaogames	04 Feb 2017 4:25 p.m. PST
No gunfights on the sabbath!
Sobieski	04 Feb 2017 5:13 p.m. PST
Gunfight at Oy Vey Corral?
JMcCarroll	04 Feb 2017 5:20 p.m. PST
No wonder they got pissed when the bank was ropped!
Zargon	04 Feb 2017 5:25 p.m. PST
Shlomo the taylor, fastest suit maker in the west:D Bit of a stereotype joke but I wonder if there were any true Jewish cowboys or even baddie black hat types, who was the most famous? Interesting stuff.
79thPA	04 Feb 2017 5:57 p.m. PST
Here you go: link
Cacique Caribe	04 Feb 2017 6:32 p.m. PST
YouTube link Dan
bsrlee	04 Feb 2017 8:22 p.m. PST
Yep, nobody has every heard of Levi Strauss or blue jean trousers.
willthepiper	05 Feb 2017 1:07 a.m. PST
Didn't anyone here watch Deadwood? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Star
Zargon	05 Feb 2017 1:42 p.m. PST
Thanks 79thPA that was quite the tale. Nothing madder than a jewish Irishman heheh!
Tango01	05 Feb 2017 3:30 p.m. PST
(smile) Amicalement Armand
11th ACR	05 Feb 2017 11:24 p.m. PST
YouTube link

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