How the West Was Sane

The Dodge City and Tombstone lawman in 1928,
47 years after the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

“When Pat Buchanan kicked off his bid for the presidency in Arizona in the 1996 Republican primary, he posed for pictures, replete with gunbelt, in front of the O.K. Corral.”

“If Virgil or Wyatt (Earp) had found this NRA supporter posing for pictures wearing a Colt .45 in public, they’d have clubbed him — or ‘buffaloed’ him in this parlance of the time — hauled him off to jail, and fined him $25 for carrying firearms within the city limits.”

In other words, the Wild West was tamer than 21^st century America.

Source: “Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends," Allen Barra