13 Wild West Gunfights Hollywood Got Completely Wrong

13 Wild West Gunfights Hollywood Got Completely Wrong Almost everything you picture about a Wild West gunfight is wrong. The movies sold you the fantasy of the fair draw and the empty street at noon; the record tells a quieter, deadlier, and far stranger story of ambushes, drunken brawls, buckshot in the back, and men who died without ever clearing leather. Sources: Arizona Memory Project overview of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/nodes/... O.K. Corral Gunfight Site history page on the Tombstone shootout - https://www.ok-corral.com/pages/histo... Kansas Historical Society article on the Newton General Massacre, August 20, 1871 - https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/newto... South Dakota State Historical Society overview of the killing of Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood - https://www.sdhsf.org/research/wild-b... Missouri State Archives exhibit on the death of Jesse James in St. Joseph - https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resou... True West Magazine feature on Commodore Perry Owens and the Pleasant Valley War - https://truewestmagazine.com/article/... "Copyright Disclaimer" Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, education or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.