Fiction Gets Wild West Wrong
Wild West fiction has convinced us that cowboys spent a good chunk of their time dueling. Author and historian Robert DeArmond wrote: “Gunfights are sudden, impromptu affairs, and gunfighters took every advantage available.” But did historians get it wrong? Recent research shows that even conservative estimates say that the Old West was about as murderous as today’s most violent cities. History Dose explains.
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