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03 Nov 2016 6:53 p.m. PST
by Editor in Chief Bill
- Changed title from ".7 Strange Tales From the Wild West" to "7 Strange Tales From the Wild West"
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| Tango01 | 03 Nov 2016 3:52 p.m. PST |
"The old Wild West is the stuff of legends: Gunslingers robbing banks and trains. Cowboys on long cattle drives. Gold and silver rushes. Dinosaurs, UFOs, feral camels, and giant cannibals probably don't come to mind. But every time period has its strange stories, and the Wild West is no different. Some of those stories are exactly what you'd expect, while others are surprisingly modern…"
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| Double W | 04 Nov 2016 8:21 a.m. PST |
Ugh. As much as I love 'weird west' tales, articles like this just show the author's stupidity. Almost all these stories are drawn from newspaper accounts at the time. The thing is, most newspapers of the era regularly published wild hoaxes to entertain readers. (Mark Twain, during his days as a newspaperman, was known as a particularly inventive creator of these tales.) Most readers of the time knew they were hoaxes and got the joke. It is only in the modern age -- when IQs seemed to have plummeted -- that people go back and read these articles and not realize they were never intended to be taken seriously. |
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