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missed the bit when...

posted 20 years ago by mujipor
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when...they race for land? dont know anything bout american history, but just wanted to know what that part was all about, so there were just land there and people could 'win' it?

[–] lestatslady 20 years ago

Basically yeah. You were given a colored flag and a horse, and you found a piece of land with a numbered flag, raplaced it with the colored flag, and the land was yours. It was a pretty cool part in the movie.

Humans are animals. Brute creatures. Their destruction can only make sense.~Akasha

[–] LilTeapot 20 years ago

It didn't always work that way. A lot of times you just bought the land from the government. But sometimes (as in this case) they would give out huge pieces of land at once and people raced for it. The guys in the movie that were shooting other people during the race were called "claim jumpers" and they would steal someone else's claim. Pretty crazy stuff.

[–] Timbo-NL 20 years ago

What was the music Shannon began to play when her mother asked her to play for her friends on the piano? I mean the classical part, not the bandmusic.
i thought it might have been Moonlight Sonata from Beethoven, but i'm not sure.

[–] tamara5hartman 20 years ago

yes, it was Moonlight Sonata

[–] MovieMan1975 16 years ago

Other than a quick shot of someone being "executed", they didnt really show the claim jumpers. From what I read, the Land Rush was a pretty violent affair, as many gunslingers were hired to kill and steal the other claims. Also alot of the race itself was not unlike the race in Ben Hur, with wagons trying to overturn other wagons, and riders trying to knock others' off their horses, and then of course the shootings.

[–] KayDrama 11 years ago

I see a lot of people have answered the OP correctly, but it should be mentioned that the land belonged to the Native American.