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Most Hollywood movies end with the good guys winning and the bad guys in jail or dead. How true is that to the Old West?

by | Aug 1, 2007 | Inside History

Most Hollywood movies end with the good guys winning and the bad guys in jail or dead. How true is that to the Old West? Willie Slappy Jonesboro, Georgia Western books are full of stories about outlaws beating the rap or serving only a year or two behind bars for some serious crime. Read Leon Metz’s John Wesley Hardin, Bill O’Neal’s Johnson County War, Casey Tefertiller’s Wyatt Earp or Ted Yeatman’s Frank and Jesse James and see how many perps got away with crime. Many times, all it to


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