The myth of shoot outs and meeting out in the center of the street at midday has pretty well been debunked as the way in which people died back in the "bad old days". Most were dry gulched outside of town or as travelers going through bad parts of the country. Bad folks would kill people just to get their pocket change, honest work being what it was. The one benefit of hangman type jurys was that even though the creep may not have been guilty of the crime convicted he was probably guilty of dozens more that he never answered for. To quote one of my favorites "If you hang with outlaws, you will in the end as well."
The genetic pool had many bad genes cleaned out during that period of time.
The genetic pool had many bad genes cleaned out during that period of time.
