The Wild Wild West has taken over people’s imagination since Hollywood created its own version of what it was like to live the cowboy life. This included crowded Saloons, bounty hunters, and wearing a lot of leather clothing in extremely hot weather. Of course, Hollywood’s version of the West was more fictional than it was real. The day-to-day lives of the real American cowboys were a little less eventful than that. But it was still full of fascinating stories.

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