Exactly how wild was the West?

>>1520373
It's hard to say as murder and crime records we're not kept particularly well during the era. or most records for that matter

Because it was all new territory with little to no established government there was a lot of excessive brutality, rampant gambling, prostitution and lawlessness. Bounty hunting became a fairly profitable profession in that era because there were so many criminals evading capture beyond the reach of the local law enforcement. Thus there could be, at any time, a great number of wanted criminals with bounties on their capture/kill and thus many Bounty hunters who operated independently. This itself could lead to frequent heinous acts (IE Bounty Hunter is supposed to bring bandit back alive, but he just kills him on the spot because that's easier. Then when he has to report to the authorities, he simply says the bandit shot at him and he returned fire in self defense)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Wild_Bill%22_Hickok#Death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earp_Vendetta_Ride
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Nose_George
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_James

It wasn't third world bad. Most historically remembered conflicts were minor skirmishes. Generally shit never sunk straight into a full blown warzone
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_County_War
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_War
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sioux_War_of_1876

but you had to be willing to risk confronting danger in many forms if you were to live on the frontier (Road Agents, bandit raids, hostile and venomous wild life, natural hazards, starvation/dehydration, thieves, angry Indians and Mestizos, con men, corrupt officials, drunken brawls, spontaneous shootouts, disease, etc)

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How does one even measure wildness?

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