W30D4 Reading
Introduction
A firsthand account is written by a person who was at an event or experienced something. A secondhand account is written by a person who was not there but has learned about an event or time period.
Review
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Practice
Let's practice determining whether this piece of writing is a firsthand or secondhand account.
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Account 1 |
| The Great Western Cattle Trail was first traveled by Captain John T. Lytle in 1874 when he was transporting 3,500 longhorn cattle up from Southern Texas into Nebraska. In five short years, it became one of the most traveled and famous cattle trails in U.S. history. Many cowboys traveled this trail moving cattle to the railroads. This is where the cowboy culture was born. From chuckwagons to campfire songs, many movies and TV shows were made to show the life and times of these cowboys out on the trail. The cowboys lived their dreams of working with cattle out in nature. Despite its popularity, traffic along the Great Western Cattle Trial began to slow down in 1885 due to the spreading use of barbed wire fences and legislation calling for a quarantine of Texas cattle due to the "Texas Fever", a disease spread by ticks. The last major cattle drive up the trail ended in Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1893. By that time an estimated six to seven million cattle and one million horses had traversed the trail. And, America had fallen in love with the cowboy way of life out on the trail. Get along little doggies! |
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