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CompanyFirstSergeant

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1. The 'Wild West' and the related gun culture...

Reply to Fast Walker 52 (Original post)

Mon May 2, 2016, 12:13 PM

May 2016

....was more a result of "Wild West Shows' than of anything happening in the so-called wild west.

These shows were commonplace after the closing of the frontier and before movies.

Once movies came around, 'Westerns' were a popular genre and added to the mystique.

Actually, the so-called 'Wild West' was not as wild as we are led to believe.

And yes, there was 'gun control' in those times, too.

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