as society changes and historical facts
evolved into embellished myths the
American Old West continues to lose its
original identity see the word of the
main office and kill him and I said Oh
welcome to watchmojo.com clarity about
the essence of a wildly misrepresented
era as we count down the five most
interesting and surprising facts about
the Old West a period from roughly 1820
to 1920 take your money kid hat cause
I’m tired of listen to you mouth number
5 the Old West wasn’t all that violent
Oh Johnny I apologize I forgot you were
there you may go now sleeve that shotgun
gun slingers brothels and booze we’ve
all heard the stories but the legends of
the Old West don’t always bear a close
resemblance to the truth for example
tombstones largest murder count in a
single year never surpassed five and so
the guns weren’t exactly a blazing as
far as Deadwood the year 1876 didn’t go
down in history is the best time to
visit as the city had about one murder
per day that year but one year of mayhem
is not representative of the larger
truth and just as the Gunsmoke line of
it’s time to get out of Dodge and hence
the Old West myth the actual town of
Dodge City averaged 0.6 murders per year
from 1870 to 1885 I knew you couldn’t
keep me Marshall now how about give me
back my gun some experts like UCLA law
professor Adam Winkler actually suggests
that this low rate of violent crime may
have been due to another surprise in
fact many frontier cities like Dodge
Deadwood and tombstone had laws
prohibiting the carrying of firearms in
town nobody’s saying you can’t own a gun
I was even saying you can’t carry a gun
all we’re saying is you can’t carry a
gun in town number four the red light
bordello of Dodge City inspired the term
red light
district just capital while famous gun
fighters like Wyatt Earp and Doc
Holliday did once live in Dodge City the
locals in the 19th century spent more
time making love than war and that’s
partially because of the red light
bordello a brothel with a red glass door
which inspired the term red-light
district
and while anxious rail workers certainly
had their own phrases for the sex
industry back then the illuminated light
offered a telling sign for those less
inclined to ask around town for the
nearest brothel prankster on me
ensure it’s impossible to say
definitively who coined the phrase that
all the facts in scholarly opinions
seemed to point directly to the red
light bordello of Dodge City
number three Jesse James was his own PR
man yeah you won’t be like me by the
early 1970s the notorious Jesse James
had been robbing banks for a good five
years and well he was pretty damn
cocksure but in his line of business
gunslingers didn’t necessarily hire
public relations representatives to say
hey check out my guy doing good work and
so Jesse James handled his own business
by leaving press releases after
robberies thus ensuring that everybody
knew they’d been officially punked don’t
tell me what I can and cannot do made in
fact one story goes that when James and
his gang showed up to rob an Iowa Bank
in 1871 the town were all assembled at
the church to hear famous orator Henry
Clay Dean rather than just slip out of
town unnoticed
James rode right into the church to wave
his stolen stacks of cash around
– which Dean replied I yield to the man
on horseback
number two camels were part of the Old
West no none of your classic Hollywood
westerns have camels in them but we’re
here to set the record straight
camels roamed the vast American
Southwest for a little while can’t
believe that Tyson is fleabags it all
began when the US government dropped 30
grand for a special import in 1855
hoping the newly arrived camels would
perform better than pack mules during
expeditions weird as it might seem it
did make sense by all accounts the
camels were much better at tracking
across the desert than eul’s
and may have stayed in use for much
longer if the Civil War hadn’t broken
out but his fate would have it some of
these camels did go AWOL and lived out
their days in the Arizona wilderness
until as late as 1891 number one the Old
West was multicultural according to
immigration statistics 50,000 people
arrived from Ireland in the 1820s and
three decades later the total had
reached nearly two million approximately
three hundred thousand people came from
China during the latter part of the
eighteen
hundreds many to work on the railroad as
it pushed west thirty thousand Caribbean
South and Central American people made
the journey in the 1880s alone the
majority of these immigrants wound up in
urban settings but many tried their luck
in the western frontier and let’s not
forget the largely untold story of black
Cowboys now that isn’t to say that there
weren’t tensions and even massacres of
black people and immigrants in
California Oregon Wyoming and elsewhere
during the 19th century but the story of
the Old West is much more multicultural
than the largely whitewashed version
that Hollywood has presented over the
years so what fact about the Old West
surprises you the most I took no there’s
gonna be so many four more guns
a-blazing top tens and wild camel top
fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
you take bulow and you take the rest of
your men and you get out of Dodge
evolved into embellished myths the
American Old West continues to lose its
original identity see the word of the
main office and kill him and I said Oh
welcome to watchmojo.com clarity about
the essence of a wildly misrepresented
era as we count down the five most
interesting and surprising facts about
the Old West a period from roughly 1820
to 1920 take your money kid hat cause
I’m tired of listen to you mouth number
5 the Old West wasn’t all that violent
Oh Johnny I apologize I forgot you were
there you may go now sleeve that shotgun
gun slingers brothels and booze we’ve
all heard the stories but the legends of
the Old West don’t always bear a close
resemblance to the truth for example
tombstones largest murder count in a
single year never surpassed five and so
the guns weren’t exactly a blazing as
far as Deadwood the year 1876 didn’t go
down in history is the best time to
visit as the city had about one murder
per day that year but one year of mayhem
is not representative of the larger
truth and just as the Gunsmoke line of
it’s time to get out of Dodge and hence
the Old West myth the actual town of
Dodge City averaged 0.6 murders per year
from 1870 to 1885 I knew you couldn’t
keep me Marshall now how about give me
back my gun some experts like UCLA law
professor Adam Winkler actually suggests
that this low rate of violent crime may
have been due to another surprise in
fact many frontier cities like Dodge
Deadwood and tombstone had laws
prohibiting the carrying of firearms in
town nobody’s saying you can’t own a gun
I was even saying you can’t carry a gun
all we’re saying is you can’t carry a
gun in town number four the red light
bordello of Dodge City inspired the term
red light
district just capital while famous gun
fighters like Wyatt Earp and Doc
Holliday did once live in Dodge City the
locals in the 19th century spent more
time making love than war and that’s
partially because of the red light
bordello a brothel with a red glass door
which inspired the term red-light
district
and while anxious rail workers certainly
had their own phrases for the sex
industry back then the illuminated light
offered a telling sign for those less
inclined to ask around town for the
nearest brothel prankster on me
ensure it’s impossible to say
definitively who coined the phrase that
all the facts in scholarly opinions
seemed to point directly to the red
light bordello of Dodge City
number three Jesse James was his own PR
man yeah you won’t be like me by the
early 1970s the notorious Jesse James
had been robbing banks for a good five
years and well he was pretty damn
cocksure but in his line of business
gunslingers didn’t necessarily hire
public relations representatives to say
hey check out my guy doing good work and
so Jesse James handled his own business
by leaving press releases after
robberies thus ensuring that everybody
knew they’d been officially punked don’t
tell me what I can and cannot do made in
fact one story goes that when James and
his gang showed up to rob an Iowa Bank
in 1871 the town were all assembled at
the church to hear famous orator Henry
Clay Dean rather than just slip out of
town unnoticed
James rode right into the church to wave
his stolen stacks of cash around
– which Dean replied I yield to the man
on horseback
number two camels were part of the Old
West no none of your classic Hollywood
westerns have camels in them but we’re
here to set the record straight
camels roamed the vast American
Southwest for a little while can’t
believe that Tyson is fleabags it all
began when the US government dropped 30
grand for a special import in 1855
hoping the newly arrived camels would
perform better than pack mules during
expeditions weird as it might seem it
did make sense by all accounts the
camels were much better at tracking
across the desert than eul’s
and may have stayed in use for much
longer if the Civil War hadn’t broken
out but his fate would have it some of
these camels did go AWOL and lived out
their days in the Arizona wilderness
until as late as 1891 number one the Old
West was multicultural according to
immigration statistics 50,000 people
arrived from Ireland in the 1820s and
three decades later the total had
reached nearly two million approximately
three hundred thousand people came from
China during the latter part of the
eighteen
hundreds many to work on the railroad as
it pushed west thirty thousand Caribbean
South and Central American people made
the journey in the 1880s alone the
majority of these immigrants wound up in
urban settings but many tried their luck
in the western frontier and let’s not
forget the largely untold story of black
Cowboys now that isn’t to say that there
weren’t tensions and even massacres of
black people and immigrants in
California Oregon Wyoming and elsewhere
during the 19th century but the story of
the Old West is much more multicultural
than the largely whitewashed version
that Hollywood has presented over the
years so what fact about the Old West
surprises you the most I took no there’s
gonna be so many four more guns
a-blazing top tens and wild camel top
fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
you take bulow and you take the rest of
your men and you get out of Dodge
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