Cali Joe part 2

The Joe presented in chapters six through ten is much different from the one that was established in chapters one through five. In the first five chapters Joe as a mysterious good natured and innocent youth that is helping people that he doesn't know. Joe in these chapters seems to by the model selfless hero. This view changes after we read of the battle with the Indians. In this battle readers see Joe become "for lack of better words" a savage. He scalps the Indians, steals there horses, and shots them in the back as they try to run away, In these chapters we see that Joe is not the classic wild west hero, but another classic figure of the west the outlaw. On top of all this Joe is also a horse thief. This may not sound like a big act now, but in this point and time in the west it was a crime that carried the weight of death. During this time though readers wouldn't see Joe in the same way to them he was the idea of a hero.