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From the beginning of time, people have
told stories, relegating their friends and families with tales of
adventure, hard times, interesting people, frightening experiences and
everyday life. Sometimes these were truths, others exaggerations, and
occasionally nothing more than tall tales. The more interesting of
these narratives were passed around from friend to friend and from
father to son, sometimes altering along the way or growing in strength
to the point that they became legends, folklore, or questionable
myths. Oral history, proverbs, jokes, and popular beliefs were
interwoven into music, dance, cultures, and sometimes even into
history itself.
The
Old West
is filled with folklore,
Native American mythology, and real truths that make for wonderful
campfire tales. In these stories, much like earlier European, Greek and
Roman tales, the accounts can often be only be guessed at, as to whether
they are fact or fiction, but they continue to make the rounds of new
generations.
In
these
Old West
legends, around the campfire or a roaring hearth can be heard the approach
of galloping horses, the whispers of phantoms in ghost towns, the far-off
sounds of pistols blazing, and the sighing moans of the winds drifting
through the ancient trees of hunting, mining, and cowboy camps.
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Stagecoach Rules,
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