“He said that if “gunsmoke” was truly authentic, they’d have had a human waste ditch running through the town.”
In 1860, the local people would have barely noticed a waste disposal. People in modern times would be distracted from the story by the novelty of what was, to those living in the time, too ordinary to mention. And people in cites back then had a bigger problem due to more people in less space.
PS: http://www.lemen.com/qa317.html
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