Growing up, I always had this idea of the Wild West being this lawless, gun-slinging, and saloon-frequenting time period. But as I got older and did some more research, I realized that the Wild West was not exactly what Hollywood movies and TV shows made it out to be. The myth of the Wild West is very different from the reality of it. For starters, not everyone in the Wild West was carrying a gun. In fact, most cowboys didn't… Read more.