How Wild Was The Wild West? The Shocking Reality Unearthed!
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- How wild or violent was the Wild West? Were gunfights, saloon brawls, and brazen train robberies a daily occurrence, or was that just a byproduct of Hollywood and dime novels? Also discussed are the murder rates for Deadwood and Dodge City, Red Dead Redemption 2, cowboys sharing toenail clippers, the mysterious Last Stand note, and fighting grizzly bears with a tomahawk! #history #western #wildwest
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Reminds me of the quote from the man who shot Liberty Vallance. When the facts conflict with the legend, print the legend.
If it didn't happen on youtube, it didn't happen.
I have a question: Do you think Jeramiah Johnson and Bear Claw were romping on the bear skins at night? A little pilgrim play.
@@kirkalley3469whoa! Wrong forum! 😂
When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
I bet their beaver traps weren't the only thing that was well greased.@@JohnSmith-gb5vg
A cordial welcome to Your new editor and co-conspirator Josh. Best Wishes to everyone at the Wild West Extravaganza, their Families and Friends.
As a Native American we refer to the Indian Wars as from when the Spanish first arrived in the New world to about 1923 when the last Indian uprising was put down in Utah...so no it wasn't over in a decade.
what happened to the people before your people?
@@JohnnyDanger36963 The Native American Genome has been thoroughly mapped by Geneticists. Every Native American who has ever lived or lived today descends from one group of closely related Hunter Gatherers consisting of no more than 13 individuals who crossed the Bering Straight 30,000 years ago. As they moved South members split off in all directions claiming the land.
There are two intriguing facts about this though one is that some South American Natives around the west coast of the continent have some Polonisians DNA. However Genetics has not advanced far enough to show if this DNA came before European contact or after. But if true it proves The Americas were settled by People from Asia first not Europe.
Secondly there is a theory that Europeans from France followed the ice flows across the Atlantic like Inuit's. The theory is based on similarities between Spear points with the Pre Clovis sites in America on the East Coast and sites in Europe. However besides using similar spear points there is no other evidence. No villages, no graves, no cave art and most essentially there is no DNA evidence, it is just as likely a coincidence then actual contact.
If they were here they either were costal seasonal hunters who came hunted and left. Or they died out from some disease or Natural disasters leaving nothing for us to identify them or even know if they ever existed.... So No prior to Native Americans getting here some thirty to twenty thousand years ago there is no evidence that there were Humans here before us. So what happened to them ??? Well there was no them we were first.
@@JohnnyDanger36963 UA-cam is deleting my comments, however there is no credible evidence anyone was here before the first Native Americans got here almost 30,000 years ago.
I'd say the Wild Wild West was 💯% lethal, as I have yet to get a firsthand account of a survivor. 😂
Haha
I had a college textbook entitled “how to lie with statisics”.
But you still have a lot of people especially those on the right who love to say numbers don't lie😂
You didn't have one called multiple positions with statistics?
@@grapeshotmeanwhile you commies believe in MMT….😂
@someonethatwatchesyoutube2953 you don't even know what communist means without looking it up. You just know it's bad because you, right-wing neo-nazis say it's bad😄😄😄
@@grapeshotWe know it's bad because it takes power away from the people and gives it to the government, and has led to millions of deaths. Directly. You'll say capitalism has too, and then you'll list indirect things like wars, big pharma, blah blah blah. You defeated yourself already when you admitted (again, indirectly) that you don't know what a neo nazi is. You think conservatives are neo nazis because whoever feeds your media, be it a three letter agency or social media or someone else, told you and your friends to think that.
I must admit im a grown man and the story line of rdr2 made me cry like a baby lol
I also quit gaming years ago. I also have very low skills. My son got me back into gaming about 6 years ago because he wanted me to play GTA V online with him. He then drifted to other games. I then discovered RDR2 about 3 years ago. I found MY game. I completed the story (It truly is a masterpiece). I thrn started playing it online. Forget about RDR3. Rockstar gave up on supporting RDR2 about the time I started playing it. They are now focused on GTA Vl, & will be for the next few years. If they do then decide to make a RDR3, it won't be out before 2032 or even later. Josh, do yourself a favour, buy the PS5 & give it a crack. I guarantee you will not be disappointed
@@MicahBell_1860 The only game I play is Red Dead Online /Red Dead Redemption 2 is best Western game and most realistic. Map details, Western landscape amazing. You can hunt if your peaceful. I like Bounty Hunter role. Micah Bell screenname, rat weasel lol
Play redm friend. Check it out
Josh, it makes total sense to me, the high death count in Deadwood. They had a lot of pigs to feed 😳
Woo?
@@WildWestExtravaganza 😁
Hungry pigs eat everything, they say.
I grew up in Spearville, KS, 17 miles east of Dodge City. I spent some time as a "gunfighter" as part of the Boot Hill and Front Street replica there. At one point it was decided that the "Longbranch Saloon" there needed refurbishment. When we stripped the several layers of wallpaper off the walls, there were more than a handful of bullet marks on the walls. Realistically, most of the gunfights that occurred in that kind of setting ended up with no one hit.
Very cool
I love how Josh tells the facts about native Americans and how terrifying they were and how much killing was done by both sides, no one is completely innocent.
I think the biggest part of the mystery vs history of the wild west is the way tales were told and amplified by artist and media around the world. It endured into the 21st century. Some exaggerated, some based in truth.
Example:
I joined the Army after 9-11 and dudes from the north east honestly assumed we rode horses to school. That was the stories.
Of course we didn’t. But I am from the Nueces strip, and well, accidental killings still do happen.
This dude is about to have his mind blown watching the RDR2 walk through I wonder what will happen when he watches the gameplay
"make sure the bear walks funny for a few days"😂 I always said: "You may kick my ass, but you'll pay for the privilege".
Josh, It's worth mentioning RDR2 is very user friendly, you need zero skill. The game sorta walks you through without feeling linear and making it seem too simple. However, you can google anything you're stuck on if needed.
I'm in my 40s and never really played video games, only one before RDR2, I didn't want to play because it felt daunting, then I decided last year to finally try because I love the genre too much. Turns out it was the best piece of media I've consumed in many years. Absolutely feel in love with the story and I'm almost 100% sure you would too.
Nice
Rdr2 is the greatest gaming masterpiece related to the wild west. The next best game tied to the wild west is the first red dead. Not a lot of gaming options for guys interested in the wild west.
I know we pretty much all fantasized once or a thousand times, about joining an outlaw gang if we had been born back then. Red dead let's you live it! Currently about 2/3 through my 3rd playthrough and I love the game. It's also visually stunning and very detailed. Great characters and great villans too. You're missing out, man!!
"Gun" was pretty fun back in the day
@@mysteriousdave9257 I agree totally. I loved that one too. It needs a remaster. Same with red dead revolver!
Need some graphics to show the relative values. Hearing all these various numbers read out is difficult to really compare and understand them.🙂
Don't wait for Red Dead Redemption 3. Because with the current development timeline it's going to be 6-10 years before it comes out.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the most immersive games I've ever played. And you can get a Playstation 4 or Xbox One for pretty cheap now and the game itself is also quite cheap. You'd definitely enjoy the story and atmosphere. They actually did the time period justice.
I find it hard to believe that Tombstone's highest number of killings in a year was only 5. 3 were killed in one day at the O.K. Corral so there were only 2 killings the whole rest of the year? That's hard to believe.
How many were killed?
Took my friend to Tombstone and from what I saw, the entire town is fake. The drive out there is probably why not many go. Everything about the place was fake. It was way scaled down. The beds and rooms looked like nobody over 4 ft tall could even fit. The cemetery was not realistic at all. Id recommend going just to settle it in your mind.
@@ToBeAnnounced2024the mines underneath it are real @ mine explorers chsnnel
On any given day you were probably in greater danger in NYC than you were in a typical old West town😮.
It makes total sense that you’d be in more danger from people any time you’re in a large and densely-populated group of people.
Just as someone who’s played it, the game RDR&RDR2 it’s the story mode that’s the best part. The online isn’t that great so you don’t have to worry about skill level vs online players. You’re just playing the story and it’s really like an incredibly detailed movie. The game walks you through all the buttons and skills your player has including “Dead Eye” which slows things down during gun fights all the way from big shootouts against gangs or agents all the way to showdowns with QuickDraw. I highly recommend it if you ever get into gaming but no pressure. As adults we rarely have time for fun stuff anyway and this game has so much stuff in it you can’t see it all in one play through unless you’re trying to
josh back at it again
I’m trying
Carrying firearms in towns was actually stricter in most western towns than today especially in constitutional carry states
Pocket pistols were the top selling revolvers at most times. Those towns weren’t that strict, people just hid their weapons.
Back then they didn't ban possession, only the open display of firearms. People went from carrying large holstered pistols to small pocket ones. Rarely were they ever searched for weapons.
Sam Clemens, who lived in Virginia City, Nevada Territory from 1861 to 1864, began using his pen name "Mark Twain" there while writing for the "Territorial Enterprise" newspaper. In Twain's ROUGHING IT, (published 1872), he says the first 38 men buried in the Virginia CIty cemetery, circa 1860, were all murdered. The population of Virginia City in 1860 was around 5000, so the cemetery burials alone make for roughly 760 murders per 100,000 population. Based on your high murder figures for Deadwood,another mining town, it appears to me that the mining camps and towns (~1848-1900) were the true "Wild West" scenario we think of as visualized in most movie "Westerns". The era of the "Sixgun Packin'" Western Frontiersman, began with the introduction of the 1851 Colt Navy .36 in late 1850, during the California Gold Rush, so that actually does make sense!
Really get a kick out of your excellent channel. Best wishes and just keep on doing your great history lessons!
Thanks
Back then they said only murders and bushwhackers lived in Missouri! They must have been from Kansas 😊 .
KEEP IT PUSHING MAN were here for it love seeing you do your thing and watching the channel grow i been here for a while now and its always one of my main things to listen to
Thank you!!!!
Just keep looking in mine shafts, there's bound to be a DeLorean in one. Just make sure you take a spare rod of plutonium and some gas. If you don't have that make sure you have a scientist buddy who can rig up the DeLorean to withstand a bolt of lightning off a clock tower. Once you get that baby up to 88 mph you're about to see some serious shit.
I gotta figure out how to get back to the land of deodorant and shaved legs
@@WildWestExtravaganza stop taking vacations in France would be a start. Stay clear of hippy communes is another good way. Turns out crystals and patchouli don't work as well as they say.
Josh, plenty of words for thought👍🏻
The murder rate is tricky because it’s isolated yet whole urban center populations are used. There are over 3000 counties in USA and in 2018 more than half had zero homicides. 1% of counties had more than half the homicides. But those counties are populous and have the vast majority not participating in homicide. Chicago uses 4 million people for their per capita rate while St. Louis uses 200k, St. Louis county has 1.1 million people and a homicide rate of 5/100k while St. Louis proper has had a rate as high as 88/100k. If St. Louis county and proper were together it would be comparable rate to Chicago.
It all depends on the circumstances
I HIGHLY recommend playing RDR2. It's gorgeous, has a story and landscape that will suck you in, and even watching a playthrough would be right up your alley. Much different than the sweaty online games you mentioned.
O ya something to listen to at work in the morning 🍺
hope you like it
Just found your channel about 1 month ago and I’ve been hooked ever since. Keep up the fantastic work. 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Welcome aboard! Thanks!
I've watched a heap of the boy's videos too. Of course, I liked them, all that I've watched, and subscribed a while back. I wonder what the fatality rate would be for interacting with some of the characters. For instance, John Wesley Hardin. I'm fairly certain some of them boys were sure enough dangerous and deadly.
No self respecting cowboy, has never played Rdr2 😂. You'll LOVE it. I'm 49 and it's the best game ever. Part 3 won't be out for about 8 years
No self respecting cowboy plays a damn video game.
By then I’ll have more free time
Damn, I was thinking yesterday was Wednesday and couldn't figure life without Wild West Extravaganza not having an episode.
Thank you for the hard work, you have many fans in the Salem Oregon Mental Institution on Center Street.
Ha thanks
Josh! I seriously recommend playing rdr2. I've never been real into video games until recently, and actually, your channel is what drove me to play that game. You don't have to be good at games as you can select your difficulty level, and don't worry about playing online. Idk what's up if they're making a #3 but rdr2 is probably one of the greatest games out there. If you love the old West, which I know you do, you will enjoy that game. It's a large game so don't worry about trying to get to the end. Just hop on and pay attention to what's going on and next thing you know you will be fully immersed. Like I said I was never really into games so I understand how it gets boring, but I can not recommend that game enough. They've done an incredible job with world building and it truly feels like the things in that game are gonna happen whether you're looking at them or not. Seriously give it a look. Love your channel bro great job and thanks for all the great information and entertainment!
The real Wild West was before 1850 when it was largely lawless and unsettled.
Billy the kid rocked out!! 🤟
Thanks Josh, I enjoyed this short but interesting upload. My favorite part is hearing your Jethro Bodine style math equations. Naught carry the Naught Naught and so forth. Still, I believe most cow-pokes riding into or thru a legendary town would shudder a bit in the saddle and check the cylinder. Kind of reminds me of air travel verses shark attack stats today. I can tell you about West Dallas. Windows up, don't draw attention, and if you have a flat... drive on and damn the rim.
During the West West period there were violent deaths aplenty. Back East. More than out west. But the Old West we romanticize. We collectively remember the Old West dime novel stories and movies. Just my perspective
I hear ya, but the numbers tell a different story. Mostly the west was more free of crime, but some locations had higher murder rates than anywhere back east.
@@WildWestExtravaganza …. Yeah! That’s why we still hear of them. Tombstone, Deadwood, Dodge City, Silver City… Place that needed taming
That cigerette paper makes me wonder about exactly what the Kid (or any person living nomadically) carried with him on his travels. I guess a pencil would be necessary for stock sales. A good place would be the waistcoat pocket. Wherever I read about the cigerette paper, I remember a source saying that if it were modern, it would probably have been signed Billy the Kid, not William Bonney. Facinating.
I have firsthand accounts that talk about violence that wasn’t documented. No one was even aware of it because there was very little civilization yet.
The Dalles Oregon was a very bad town and in Montana they had a vigilante group to fight violence and crime. I don’t think their activities were documented, not accurately.
The perfect amount of time between leaving my last call and the shop. How do you do it?
I plan each release based on your schedule, thought you knew
the question of how many homesteaders got murdered for their stake in the middle of nowhere is truly a mind numbing thought. jeez.
also, i live in independence, ks. Dodge City is essentially a gas station, a sonic, and some old ass buildings. that's it.
I was gifted a Xbox after not having one for almost a decade because I too became bored with video games, but had been curious about rdr2 since it came out. Best game I ever played!! Storyline is amazing and a tearjerker. Very immersive game. If you do watch a play through, don’t watch the ending you gotta experience it yourself if you do play. But do check out the final song from the soundtrack, it’s called American Venom, one of the best epic western pieces of music I’ve ever heard
I use that math to lay claim to the best win percentage in mma. 3 and 0. 😂. We wont talk about how i fared in the kickboxing ring....
I’ve spent about 5 minutes in the ring, most of which was spent getting knocked down
@@WildWestExtravaganza my boxing was ok and grappling was really good....well good for 2001 mma. I had a real hard time dealing with leg kicks. I once jumped into a kickboxing match (amateur) at a local bar after getting 4 beers deep. The kid was 50lbs lighter than me. I think i landed 2 shots. That little bastard, an actual muy thai fighter, pummeled my legs so bad that i seriously couldnt work for almost a week. I finished the fight but wished i had just gone down early and gone back to drinkin 😂😂😂
hey johnny ringo can i get those toe nail clippers back?
Ha
Of course I’m still listening Josh! Wouldn’t miss an episode. With my work schedule it does take a day or two to get time for listening these days.
Anyway, thanks for addressing my question!
Thanks Josh & Christina. Watch out for those bears! 🐻🗡️😂
Left out the welcome to Christina! My sincerest apologies. Welcome to the show, and thank you for all you both do! ♥
I really appreciate you and everything you do for this channel. You're videos help me a lot. They give me comfort
I appreciate you too
When you throw in the nonexistence of antibiotics and penicillin along with doctors not scrubbing up regularly and that will jack with the numbers as well when you add these up.
Also I appreciate your use of statistics in this episode. Well done sir.
Thanks
Thank you! New Mexico Territory was not included in your analysis and I think New Mexico Territory stands alone. According to Michael Wallace New Mexico Territory accounted for at least 15 percent of all murders in the nation and by 1880, the last full year of the Kid’s life, the homicide rate in New Mexico Territory was forty-seven times higher than the national average, with gunshot wounds as the leading cause of death.2 Wallis, Michael. Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride (p. 180). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition. The footnote is for Paul Kooistra, Criminals as Heroes: Structure, Power & Identity (Bowling Green, Ohio:Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1989), p. 75. It's a really good topic...especially with all the anecdotal alcohol consumption.
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Did not see the eipisode that you did about the cigarett paper but I think it was from the McCubbin collection. Gonna look.
mix in liquor and gambling, , wild bill, earps, john wesley, and a bunch of others, morgan earp was killed playing pool in a bar at midnight, billy the kids first murder was tussling on bar floor after playing poker
Hello again good Sir 🤠
hello again to you good sir
Welcome, Christina!
josh!! my bud good hearing you again, it's been a while - always good to check in and enjoy! tku my friend.
More to come!
I start walking funny every time I get a UA-cam notification from WWE
Nice
As the old saying goes, "Figures don't lie, but liars figure."
Would the battles during Sibley's New Mexico Campaign in 1862 count since they could be considered as one big shootout between Southerners and Yankees? LOL
It would be interesting to study the number of recorded murders as the American Frontier advanced from the Appalachians to the Pacific and see which era of western expansion would be considered the deadliest. There might have been more Wild West shootouts on the Natchez Trace and along the Mississippi, especially with the duelists in New Orleans, than there ever were in the Old West.
Josh is the single source of truth…… no questions asked
False!
Best Wild West channel on UA-cam
Thank you
I've read stories of people getting attacked by bears while cleaning game with very sharp knives in they're hands and they all say it's very hard to penitrate the thick fur ! And usually when you finally do the bear bites that hand off ! But this is when if your lucky the knife cuts the tongue or major artery and it runs off... whew sounds like something I never want to experience!😢 I read them in old copies of field and stream.
Me neither!
Well math was never my strongest subject so I'm going to have to take your word for it. Sounds legit.
Welcome aboard Christina!
Lost damn phone again. Catching up on Josh. Here where West was in 1794. Not a damn thing changed. Except North of river no longer Indian Territory. Some of us made friends both sides never gave a shit bout nothin but nice.
Now Josh….in the future you won’t always just have a calculator at your disposal……😂 like brushy that too was just a tall tale!😂 Another great one brother!!!
I thought RDR2 was a new Star Wars robot 😅
Dan Tucker? The fine old man, washed his face in a frying pan? That Dan Tucker?
Close!
The real Dan Tucker’s first name was actually David. It’s unknown if the song influenced him being called Dan but the papers at the time would occasionally reference the song when writing of deputy Tucker
There were only a few actual quick draw type gunfights in the old west. One being the Wild Bill and Dave Tutt fight. Hollywood must entertain though,right?
your #1 dude, , always said to my kids if i could back in time, want to be a fly in a saloon, it was madness
Lol "bear walking funny for a couple days" just so happens that's my goal when my wife gives me that look. By the way welcome Christina I look forward to checking out your content as well.
Hell yes!!
The problem respectfully, 100,000 was more than most states held back then. So to compare one city to the whole state it makes 1 killing sound huge. Turn that down to the number of the population of just the town.
That’s what was used in the study. When I spoke of Tombstone I was using the population of Tombstone, not the entire territory of Arizona
So basically Dodge City was the Chicago of today xD
Per statistics you were much more likely to be killed in Dodge City in 1880 than in present day Chicago.
Current murder rate in Chicago is 23.2 per 100,000 residents. When just focusing on the south side of Chicago it jumps to 32.7 per 100,000.
In contrast Dodge City in 1880 it was 100 per 100,000 citizens.
@@WildWestExtravaganza Its crazy what population density does !! Imagine a Dodge City with the population density of a modern city, now that would a be hell hole xD
Josh, trying to explain per capita to the general population is a losing battle. Some of us understand and I would expect history oriented folk to be more informed but overall, yeah, they just won't get it.
Eh, I dunno. I’m pretty dumb and I still get it
Bonham bloodbath Texas
Lee, Hardin and Dixon each took the lives of atleast 40😡🤬🤬
So grateful I found this channel almost exactly in a year ago while driving to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, to camp and ride trails. On these trips, I’m simultaneously enjoying and am saddened looking at the scenery trying to imagine what it once was. It literally almost makes me sick to my stomach. Here in Oklahoma where I’m from the surrounding countryside for up to 50mi in any direction is squared up in session lines, 1 mile x 1 mile squared off. Me myself I won’t hurt anything besides foul environment and wild pigs. The toenail clippers! I can’t stand clippers I have always literally always either ripped my nails off with a thumbnail or a pocket knife and literally about an hour ago. My 5yo daughter and I cut a full toenail out with the pocket knife. I don’t remember stomping my toe or anything but it cut out extremely easy with very little blood. No idea why. but it just happened, what a coincidence lol
Wild west is a mental state? Great episode!
Thanks
Well, I remember from the Time Life Old West series, John Wesley Hardin once shot a man for snoring too loud. So there's that...
San Francisco was much wilder than the "wild wild west".
Not going against you or your math, since 2022 only a few states reported their actual crime stats. NYC, Illinois, Cali definitely always competing for that #1 spot 😂 Great video as always J
Josh. Dammit. Get aholt o Louis' darter. She ain't gonna live forever neither. She'll cater to ya.
No antibiotics or modern medicine, people were chill in a way.
That’s also why life expectancy was half what it is today.
I haven't stopped playing Rdr2 since it has came out, and also Rdr1 since they remade it for consoles. Im a neard
I really dig the way you tell a story
Why thank you
Hey Josh been listening a long time but never commented anything more on Jesse James my hero I'm from the outlaw state Missouri!
Damn, what's Christina do in her spare time.
Ya think them dudes pickin toenails n cleanin fingernails were pickin teeth with the same pocket knife as well? 🤢
Welcome Christina!
Wow man. Its great to see your channel growing and you actually employing other folks. Thats amazing,bro! Keep up the great work!
Thanks
RDR2 is on a shortlist of the best video games of all time. Some gamer hardos will knock it for being “too linear in missions and low skill,” but for casual gamers like me (and sounds like you too), that’s actually a bonus. And it’s easily the best story and interactive open world in all of gaming, even 6 years after release. Buying a console solely for the purpose of playing RDR2 would be worth it, in my opinion-that’s actually exactly what I did. I was pretty burnt out on gaming too, I didn’t even have a console at the time. But when RDR2 came out I lived with my friend who played it. I could literally sit there for hours just watching him play the game. After he was done he let me borrow his Xbox so I could play. After I beat it, I immediately bought my own console and copy of the game, and I’ve played it all the way through about once a year since. And as others have mentioned, it’s a really easy and chill game to play, the story mode is offline so there’s no hackers, cheaters, or pay-to-win ruining your fun. If you like the old west, Western movies and lore, etc. you will love the game.
All this math has hurt my little Arkansas brain.. But great episode
I know the feeling
you should totally watch the Red Dead 2 story, there's plenty on youtube! But it'd be really cool if you also talked about the historical accuracies and inaccuracies in the game
Another awesome episode! Thank you josh, you rock! 🤠
Fingernail clippers weren't invented until 1881. Not widely used until even later.
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I’m 44 and I don’t play many video games I used to play calm of duty and assassins and Wally do others but I also got bored but I’m so glad that I played rdr2 it’s so good
Yeah it makes sense that the Wild West was a lot less violent then Hollywood portrays it (present day is also). But it also makes sense that the Old Wesr was proportionally more violent then present day or even Eastern cities of the same era. As the video says a majority of the people in the west were young men seeking their fortunes. And after a hard week in the mines or on the trail they would cut lose with heavy drinking and gambling which would often lead to violence.
Like everything else turns out, the “Wild West” was really a lot of hard boring work day in and day out. Maybe that’s why young’ens were eager to join conflicts at the time.
The boom towns in Texas like Burkburnet, would give any cow town or mining boom town a real run for anyone's race for the most violent. Wichita Falls and Wichita County had a bunch of killings about 1918 to 1925. Large transient population, mostly young single men. I know that there were about 30 speakeasies and about 10 private clubs for the more well to do.(this was during prohibition). At least 10 full fledged brothels and a serious hobo jungle down on the river. Nice thing about the oil field, mud tanks will hide a body forever.
Rd2 is awesome. Play online and on a private server 😊 or the main game is also great. But online you can explore
I am kind of a gun nut so to speak, would like it if you did a video on the true speed of old west gun slingers . I bet average would be from draw to first shot would be roughly around 1.5 second to 2 , just guessing . It would be interesting to see just how fast average draw speed and first shots were ,comparing them with a modern shooter , just wondering
I don’t know I would find out such a thing
@@WildWestExtravaganza I use to compete in a few shooting course back in the day, was curious to see how fast they were really, I have seen on line they averaged 1.75 , a good shooter today from draw and first shot under 1 second , not me from 10 yards around 1.38 I am old guy now
Yeeeehawwwwwww!!!
Yah!
Had the same experience and timeline with video games. If the next game is focused earlier I'll prob play.
Sounds like they need a fur trade era version
@@WildWestExtravaganza I hope it's the California Gold Rush or at least Ca 1860s +/-
@@prestonmoore2209that’s the best suggestion I’ve heard over the years!