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Date Posted: 20:54:02 10/29/13 Tue
Author: SWC
Subject: Dodge City
In reply to: DAN 's message, "Questionable Things in Westerns" on 19:18:53 09/17/13 Tue

Love Gunsmoke but...

- Who takes care of the place when the Marshal and Chester are out of town? Why is a US Marshal, (whose job is to apprehend fugitives), also a town Marshal?

- In such a rough town, why is Chester his only deputy, (and he's not really a deputy).

- Where is the Sheriff of Ford County? That was Bat Masterson's job. Wyatt Earp with take care of things in town. Bat would form the posses to go after people.

- Why do confrontations always come down to quick-draw contests? Real lawmen would have their guns already out when they anticipated trouble. And they would try to out-number whomever they were dealing with to dissuade the perp from any sort of violence. A lawman isn't interested in winning contests. He's interested in upholding the law.

- Matt often says that he's employed by the War Department. Wouldn't that be the Attorney General?

- The laws in Kansas are interesting. If the victim lives, Matt's got to let him go. There's no law against assault?

- The number of men who were Marshal in a western town for 20 years is exactly zero. Most of them didn't last 6 months before they were killed or found something better to do.

- Matt got shot so many times you'd think the beer would squirt out all over the floor of the Long Branch.

- By the 70's he was outdrawing guys half his age.

- By the end of the show, Boot Hill must have taken up half the state of Kansas.

Great show though.

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[> Re: Questionable Things in Westerns -- Kayleetara, 23:40:32 12/10/13 Tue [1]

I've seen some actual jails in the West that were small buildings with no windows and a small thick wooden door with no window. The jails on TV were luxury hotels by comparison.

http://www.360cities.net/image/old-jail-in-coloma-california#-42.27,0.01,15.0


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