From: Stan Halpin
Thanks Dave, and also Bob W who made the same pick. The shot is of course something of an accident. Or maybe I should say it was the serendipitous result of an experiment. The "Wild West Show" wasn't very wild, the script involved deserters and ruffians on the Missouri fringes of the Southern rebellion (rather than the "real" West),
There was a lot more of the events that spurred the legend of the "Wild West" in what is now considered the mid-west than most people realize. Hollywood cowboy movies have skewed people's impressions of just where the "west" was located.
If you go by the movies, the James-Younger gang was riding around Monument Valley on the Arizona-Utah border robbing banks.
In real life, they committed their crimes in Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Texas and West Virginia.
And, again in real life, the James-Younger gang was exactly what you describe, "deserters and ruffians on the Missouri fringes of the Southern rebellion". That was the "real" west.
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