Nature versus nurture. It’s a question as old as humanity. Are some people bad because they are imbued with faulty DNA, or is it that their mothers just didn’t love them enough? In the final analysis, most experts believe the end result is some toxic combination. Good people in bad circumstances might prevail, while bad people in good circumstances may yet hold out hope. However, bad people in bad circumstances can become a force of nature. So it was with the Dalton boys.
In the 1890s, Coffeyville, in southeastern Kansas, had outgrown its early reputation as a cowtown. A number of businesses made the town a center of commerce and an active citizenry
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By Joseph A. Williams/Jan. 22, 2021 11:53 am EDT
Shootouts in the Wild West are, in the popular imagination, full of stereotypes. Many movie-goers have seen Clint Eastwood as a lone drifter coming to mete out justice through the barrel of a gun or an all star team of gunslingers defending a village ravaged by bandits. The Wild West, and in particular its shootouts, are engraved into popular culture.
But are these shootouts true?
The violence of Wild West shootouts has many surprising historic kernels of truth. Where it differs is that these affairs of quick death were even more violent than imagined, and there was often little distinction between good guys and bad guys. Many of these gunfights involved brutal individuals who sometimes worked on the side of the law and sometimes did not. In most cases, drunkenness and gambling were involved. In some cases, the historical events reveal outstanding bravery, which see