— TO LIVE AND DIE BY THE GUN — Two men eyed each other with respectful caution, staging a sort of methodical gunman’s Dance, circling the town square, waiting for the perfect split second to draw down on the other.

In reality, scenes like this were rare in the Old West—mostly a figment of Hollywood’s imagination. Face-to-face gun battles were far from typical. 

The rate of homicides in [...]
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