Yeah, I know. The Jesse James Farm, a major local tourist attraction, is only a few miles from me. Dodge City Kansas, storied locale of exploits by Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, and others is not that far west of here. During the period when my current house was built (1830's) and for some time later, this region was on the very fringes of "civilization". But I grew up on films mostly shot in the Bisbee/Tombstone/Tucson area of Arizona and I can't shake that image of what the "real" wild west was like.
stan On Aug 26, 2010, at 10:17 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > 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. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
