How You Would Have Died In The Wild West
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Published 2024-02-25
But the West wasn't without its risks. Outlaws still looted trains and lawmen still cornered cowboys on the run. While danger wasn't as widespread as we're led to believe, it sure was intense. Quick-draw duels, rattlesnake bites, disease, and the elements all conspired to make the West a tough place to survive. Even sex in the Old West could be precarious.
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All Comments (21)
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The Red Dead Redemption Series does a phenomenal job of portraying The Wild West
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The Oregon Trail made me believe everyone died from dysentery 😂
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Good to have this narrator back
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I kept waiting for death by childbirth
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This narrator is equivalent of the Paul Harvey of You Tube...
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We don’t know how Black Bart died, so therefore he might still be alive.
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For whatever reason, the subtitles keep labelling "Hickock" as "Hitchcock" and the thought of ol' Alfred hanging out in the Wild West making scary movies is giving me giggles.
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TB and Lumbago
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I would have probably died during childbirth and taken my mother with me.
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You didn’t mention the most unlucky outlaw, McCready, who was embalmed and sold to a circus.
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My Grandmother and Greats traveled the Oregon Trail in 1914. My grandmother was 7. They lost 4 of her younger siblings. They started with 13 kids. Back then you had to have a lot of children so your bloodline would survive. When my grandmother passed at 86 years old in Eagle Point, Oregon they wrote an article about her contributing 99 descendants into Oregon in her lifetime. She experienced the Oregon Trail IRL.
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I swear this was covered in "Blazing Saddles".
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Deadwood's portrayal of Calamity Jane was 10 out of 10.
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My Dad loved all of that Western stuff. We watched every wild west type TV show we could fit in without time conflicts. Dad was a kid who grew up in Hell's Kitchen in the 1920s and 30s, and saw the hell of death in that Iwo Jima thing. It was a normal part of his environment. He had an LP record of cowboy songs that he would play sometimes on the weekends. His favorite song was "Blood On The Saddle." R I.P., Dad, hope to see you where there's no more pain....
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You forgot to mention that Ketchum had also lost his arm due to an infection so he wasn't balanced properly when he dropped.
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either on the trail of tears or starved in a residential school forced to pray 😂
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The Old West had no wifi and no Youtube. I'd have died of boredom.
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There is nothing “fuzzy” about who shot first. Han was the only person who shot anyone at that table that day.
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Sorry, but your whole party died of dysentery.
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Lol, that's exactly when we started playing Oregon Trail was third grade. I think on Apple II Green screens. Then we got one in color! About 1988 😂
