I still like to watch the old westerns, but as I got older and read accurate historical portrayals of the real west, it took a lot of fun out of the shows. Like there was no fast draw gunfighters. And the sixguns of the day were wildly inaccurate, and nobody shot from the hip. And little or no quicksand. Every long-running western seemed to have one episode where the hero got stuck in quicksand.
The movie western is truly part of mythology now. As far as being disapointed, well I reckon I still dig them even though it isn’t always realistic. Could be there were plenty of ancient Greeks who knew better as well, I imagine. If they have a good story I can look past a lot.
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