7 Wild West Gunfight 'Facts' Hollywood Totally Faked

7 Wild West Gunfight 'Facts' Hollywood Totally Faked Everything you think you know about a Wild West gunfight came from a movie set, not the frontier. In this video we break down seven "facts" about Old West gunfights that Hollywood completely invented, and we put each one up against the documented historical record. You'll find out why the high-noon quick-draw duel almost never happened, why the low-slung "gunfighter's rig" holster wasn't designed until the nineteen fifties, and why fanning the hammer was a stage trick that wrecked your accuracy. We get into the weapons real gunfighters actually trusted, the strict gun-control laws in towns like Tombstone and Dodge City, and just how rare frontier gunfights truly were. Then we close with the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the most famous shootout in history, which didn't happen at the O.K. Corral, lasted about thirty seconds, and was a sloppy point-blank scramble nothing like the legend. The real West was stranger than the myth. Subscribe to Hidden Frontier for more true stories from the American frontier, and tell us in the comments which myth surprised you most.