One of those involved one of our famous TV cowboys, Wild Bill Hickok. Historians of the Western frontier, however, can only identify a couple times when this really happened. The bad guy reaches for his gun but our cowboy hero is lightning fast and pulls his six-shooter out of its holster and deposits a bullet into his opposite’s forehead. In the classic Western, the good guy and the bad guy face off man-to-man on Main Street. Most of this stuff was only a touch more realistic than Spongebob Squarepants. We even created children’s theme parks based on our romantic image of the Wild West, most replete with reenactments of the main street gunfight. Wild West shows were among the most popular forms of entertainment in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The cowboy, the gunslinger, the frontier lawman, all with six guns hanging from their hips, were the heroes of dime store novels, of the early radio dramas, decades of movies and for many, many years on TV. Few things have had a greater impact on popular culture in America than images of the Wild West.
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