2007-02-09 15:18:27 · 12 answers · asked by pamela 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Because we like to drink water, you moron! It's not like back East where you can drill a well and find water on any old piece of land! In the Southwest, water is precious!!
I live in the desert and, trust me, land that comes with water rights is at a premium!
2007-02-09 15:34:23 · answer #1 · answered by Ruby 4ever 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
~The Indians knew about floods and were too smart to stay too close to the riverbanks. They held the interior. That left the floodplains to the ignorant migrants by default. At least until the real heroes like Bearcoat Miles and William Sherman and Kit Carson and the other genocidal maniacs sent out by the Bureau of Indian Affairs cleared the hinterlands for theft and exploitation. And they could only do that after Bill Cody and his buddies had gotten them damned buffalo oot of the way. Such is enlightenment and progress.
2007-02-09 23:44:56 · answer #2 · answered by Oscar Himpflewitz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they were predominantly Christian and wanted to baptize their kids! LOL!
No, seriously, it's all about needing water to survive. Have you ever been to the West? The Southwest? It's
You can't just sink a well and trust that you'll find water. It doesn't work that way out here. So, yeah, they had to settle near rivers.
2007-02-11 18:37:18 · answer #3 · answered by QUEEN OF CORONA 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well, people who migrated near rivers mostly moved there for fertile soil. water is the source of life and along with water beholds bathing, drinking, travel, and much more that a river beholds. besides who would want to live on flat land with no water around...sounds a little dull to me
2007-02-09 23:27:13 · answer #4 · answered by Patrick R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For ,transportation,food (water for crops) fishing, water for live stock, hope of building a larger community.People also used rivers for log flotation.If the river was large enough,they used irrigation for crops.Water was the source of life and a future in an unknown land.
2007-02-09 23:45:43 · answer #5 · answered by Gloryana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the days before Interstates, and before railroads, rivers were the highways. If you don't want to be completely isolated, you settled on a river.
2007-02-09 23:41:41 · answer #6 · answered by Elise K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think about it. Way back in the day there was no plumbing to pump in the water you needed, therefore you would settle near a source of water. This way you could have drinking water, water to bathe in, wash dishes, clothes, water for your animals, water for your harvests....the list goes on and on. Much easier to live near the source of that water than to have to drag in back to your home on your back,buggy or horse.
2007-02-10 02:18:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
u need a source of water do u not? its easier to just settle near a spring or river then to dig for water.
2007-02-09 23:24:36 · answer #8 · answered by Nightstalkr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Water for drinking, cooking, bathing, etc
2) Sea food
3) Trade ships could pass though and deliver supplies, settlers, etc
4) Good scenery
2007-02-09 23:53:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
for an easy way to ship goods, fish, etc.!
2007-02-09 23:21:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋