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Tango0128 Sep 2016 10:34 p.m. PST

"It's said that truth is stranger than fiction. What gets left out is that it's often a whole lot more disappointing. Take the Wild West: we like to think we have a pretty good idea of what the frontier was like—punching cows and shooting cheats in places with names like Drunkman's Creek and Dead Squaw's Buttocks. But it turns out the reality of cowboy life was way less romantic and way more prone to stuff like STDs. It seems our mental picture of the Old West is missing important little details like…"
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TurnStyle29 Sep 2016 2:58 p.m. PST

When I saw the site I wasn't expecting much, and for anyone versed at all in the Old West the list is all stuff we've known for years. Perhaps interesting to those just getting into the Old West though.

Tango0130 Sep 2016 10:57 a.m. PST

That was the idea my friend…

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