●The fast draw did not exist.
●Revolvers were not worn low slung.
●Revolvers were generally not fired from the hip.
● Fanning a revolver was unheard of.

●The buscadero holster wasn’t designed until the 1920s. They were used in such television series and western movies such as the Rifleman, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Paladin, Westworld, and The Magnificent Seven.
●Gunslinger and gunfighter are movie terms.
●Face downs in the street only happened a couple times.
●More men were killed with knives in barrooms than by firearms.
●Most cowboys on the range did not carry revolvers, most carried
rifles in saddle boots.
●Indians preferred to fight at night.
●Cavalry troopers did not wear yellow bandanas.
●There was no such military command as Forward Ho!
●Most women wore dresses not jeans and rode horses side saddle.
●Chaps were only worn when herding cattle.
●There was no such title as Town Sheriff, Sheriffs enforced laws in the entire county, towns were policed by Marshals.

●Indians did not attack a wagon train circle by riding in circles around it.
●Most western forts did not have walls.
●Army chevrons were not worn on shirts.
●One piece red long underwear did not exist until after 1900.
●Mexican Bandidos did not wear bandoleers.
●String bowties are 20th century.
●Panel front shirts were not worn with one top corner unbuttoned and hanging down.





●Stagecoaches did not carry a strongbox full of gold on every run; most holdups were made to rob the passengers.
●Most men did not carry revolvers all day, every day.
●The Winchester lever action rifle was “The gun that won the west” not the Colt revolver.
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Good stuff.
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Oh shoot, Jack, you took all the flair out!
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😄💜😂
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Yes, the research disappointed me too. But so did finding out about the Easter Bunny & Santa.
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Never mind. We can always imagine new stuff, and then again, there are lots of good things that are real. Like ice cream.
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Yum!
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