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Old West towns were saloons, gambling dens and prostitutes known as "soiled doves."
In the Wild West of the 1880s gun control was far stricter compared to virtually no rules in Arizona today. Guns were checked in at the hotel or sheriff's office shortly after riding into town and picked up on the way out.
Lax gun laws are being attributed to recent shooting deaths in that state. Regularly history reveals the forward thinking of past generations but improved technology and knowledge today has led to dumb founded ignorance. Why is that!?
Arizona's rugged rural history has enshrined their love of guns in its state wide 1910 constitution.
Often myth usurps history - the blazing six shooters in the 1881 gunfight at OK Corral actually went down in a narrow alley, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday were hailed as heroes much later, at first they were charged with murder. Three Earp brothers and Holliday faced down four men in a 15 foot wide alley a block from OK Corral ... Virgil Earp, marshal, informed the men they were there to disarm them by enforcing the gun ordinance. No one knew who fired first but later three men lay dead - all buried at Boot Hill - and their leader Ike Clanton had run off.
Dubbed the "Gunfight at the OK Corral" by a 1920s pulp novelist, it catapulted the incident into the public domain and formed part of the old Wild West myth.
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