what was the wild west really like?
What was the wild west really like?
Anthony Perry
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Henry Bailey
pretty much lower crime per capita than modern cities
Samuel Ward
Not really wild at all
every had a fucking job to do and they aren't going to prance around in that heat
Blake Murphy
You bet your ass it had lower crime per capita than London, Paris or Philadelphia at that time too.
Tyler Gomez
It was wild.
Cameron Bennett
Well put
Ryder Barnes
>what was the wild west really like?
Utterly dominated by massive business entities like mines, railroads, cattle companies.
Anthony Allen
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Similar to the crime rates of South America of Today. If you're white, its little less, but if you're non-white, expect lot more crime.
Christopher Mitchell
pretty wild, and west
Dominic Robinson
>learn about cowboys
>learn they were literally just people that take care of cattle
the legend of a cowboy is like if an office worker or cashier had a legend to them.
Charles Collins
No, cowboys were cattle drovers. They drove cattle to their destination, across very rough and often hostile land. That was pretty dramatic living.
Eli Long
weren't The Cowboys (emphasis on THE) a gang?
Jason Garcia
They could be pretty ruthless to people they saw as hindering their job. They had a lot of deadly encounters with ranchers and farmers.
Liam Morgan
>tfw we'll never get a history channel reality show about real cowboys
Brayden Flores
not really all that hostile
government surveillance was big and they mostly just had to take their cattle to the railroads
Jason Gutierrez
Well there was a war between cattle farmers and shepards. Hostile indians who were pushed further west, and highly competitive (even violent) railroad and mining companies who want to dominate the land.
Carson Martinez
Just like Blood Meridian. Are you happy now?
Jason Gomez
Lots of mexicans, I live near a cowtown where the cowboys would drive the cattle up north to be put on a train and send east
Kayden Powell
>For instance, the adult residents of Dodge City faced a homicide rate of at least 165 per 100,000 adults per year
That's pretty bad.
According to Wikipedia it's worse than the worst modern big city.
Dominic Garcia
There's more nogs than the westerns potray
Jackson Morales
>office worker or cashier
Those are actually more respectable. Cowboys at the time were pretty much hobos on rented horses.
Mason Hill
Stop investigating. It's our mythos.
Ayden Miller
Hot, boring, often hot and boring. Dusty.
Leo Walker
There were quite a few black cowboys, like 15-20%.
Ayden Ward
this. It was hard labor and didn't pay well so a lot of black moving westward to escape the south and get by, had no choice but to pursue to that line of work.
Daniel Morgan
Hello niggers
Ian Gomez
huh? Look up literally any history book on cowboys. Fuck off illiterate.