Addendum to "50 things I learned in movies"...the wild west

[Jolly Blue Giant]

I don't feel like digging up the old thread about things I learned from watching movies, so this is just an attachment to the long gone thread



The Wild, Wild West

The fast draw did not exist

Revolvers were not worn low slung

Revolvers were never fired from the hip

Fanning a revolver was unheard of and made up for movies

The low-slung pistol holster wasn't designed until the 1920s

Gunslinger and gunfighter are movie terms

Calling out for a showdown in the street only happened a couple times

More men in the old west were killed with knives in barrooms than by firearms

Most cowboys on the range did not carry revolvers, most carried rifles in saddle boots

Indians preferred to fight at night, in spite of movies showing them attacking during daytime

Cavalry troopers did not wear yellow bandanas

There was no such military command as "Forward Ho"!

Most women wore dresses, not jeans

Chaps were only worn when herding cattle

Indians did not attack a wagon train circle by riding in circles around it

Most western forts did not have walls

Army chevrons were not worn on shirts

Mexican Bandidos did not wear bandoleers

String bow ties ("bolo ties") are a 20th century invention

Panel front shirts were not worn with one top corner unbuttoned and hanging down

Stage coaches rarely carried gold on a run, most holdups were made to rob the passengers

Most men did not carry revolvers all day, every day

Hats worn by cowboys looked much different than what is shown in movies and a good cowboy hat cost as much or more than a pistol

The Winchester lever action rifle was "The gun that won the west" not the Colt revolver

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I don't feel like digging up the old thread about things I learned from watching movies, so this is just an attachment to the long gone thread



The Wild, Wild West

The fast draw did not exist

Revolvers were not worn low slung

Revolvers were never fired from the hip

Fanning a revolver was unheard of and made up for movies

The low-slung pistol holster wasn't designed until the 1920s

Gunslinger and gunfighter are movie terms

Calling out for a showdown in the street only happened a couple times

More men in the old west were killed with knives in barrooms than by firearms

Most cowboys on the range did not carry revolvers, most carried rifles in saddle boots

Indians preferred to fight at night, in spite of movies showing them attacking during daytime

Cavalry troopers did not wear yellow bandanas

There was no such military command as "Forward Ho"!

Most women wore dresses, not jeans

Chaps were only worn when herding cattle

Indians did not attack a wagon train circle by riding in circles around it

Most western forts did not have walls

Army chevrons were not worn on shirts

Mexican Bandidos did not wear bandoleers

String bow ties ("bolo ties") are a 20th century invention

Panel front shirts were not worn with one top corner unbuttoned and hanging down

Stage coaches rarely carried gold on a run, most holdups were made to rob the passengers

Most men did not carry revolvers all day, every day

Hats worn by cowboys looked much different than what is shown in movies and a good cowboy hat cost as much or more than a pistol

The Winchester lever action rifle was "The gun that won the west" not the Colt revolver

Awww Rick!! Now why did you have to and ruin it for me?!?