Was the Old West this much badass?

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>Different witnesses offered varying stories about Holliday's actions. Cowboys witnesses testified that Holliday first pulled out a nickel-plated pistol he was known to carry, while others reported he first fired a longer, bronze-colored gun, possibly the coach gun. Holliday killed Tom McLaury with a shotgun blast in the side of his chest. Holliday was grazed by a bullet possibly fired by Frank McLaury who was on Fremont Street at the time. He supposedly challenged Holliday, yelling, "I've got you now!" Holliday is reported to have replied, "Blaze away! You're a daisy if you have."

Most of life in the Old West was just backbreaking labor alleviated by alcohol and questionable patent medicines, it was never as romantic as Hollywood made it look.

>>78130296
We went around slaughtering the red man, each other, and your jungle savage friends in a continent spanning, lawless battle royale for decades before the (((Union))) got around to sending in marshals.

>>78130296
I read somewhere the biggest cause of death for cowboys was getting dragged by their stirrups by their own horses. Having said that brutal violence as a part of life was a very real thing. Apache raids in Mexico were particularly bad.

>>78130296
Yes.