The idea that there weren't financial incentives ranging from literal bounties on Indian heads/scalps to "free" land for killing Native Americans and that cowboys were above taking avantage of these incentives is insane lol.
Fair actually. They weren't blameless, it just wasn't "cowboys vs Indians" like Hollywood would have you believe. It was the US Army doing genocide with financial incentives for settlers to assist. The "man with no name" gunslinger cowboy is a totally fictitious trope.
The idea that there weren't financial incentives ranging from literal bounties on Indian heads/scalps to "free" land for killing Native Americans and that cowboys were above taking avantage of these incentives is insane lol.
Fair actually. They weren't blameless, it just wasn't "cowboys vs Indians" like Hollywood would have you believe. It was the US Army doing genocide with financial incentives for settlers to assist. The "man with no name" gunslinger cowboy is a totally fictitious trope.