In the Wild West there were four main types of town. These were mining towns, cattle towns, Mormon towns and homesteader towns. In these towns the inhabitants suffered different problems to different degrees, such as communication, law and order and other various problems. Mining towns were built to provide accommodation for the miners to live. An example of a mining town in the USA is Denver. In these towns the law and order was a …
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…of law and order. The health problem wasn't the most severe of problems for newly set up towns. However, disease lingered and the towns definitely needed organising! The lack of education was probably the least of the problems in setting up a new town in the West because people suffered much worse problems like law and order. As you can see there were many problems in living in a newly set-up town in the West.