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The Weird Weird West

by | Jun 1, 2006 | Features & Gunfights

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Under the category of weird but true, the Old West offered enough episodes to fill a sensation-mongering newspaper. Make that 100 newspapers. Some of these tabloid treasures involved the quest for love and romance, while others highlighted the grimness of death by hanging. But all of them paint the West as one weird place. The Lunacy of Love How to find true love? Men and women ask that question today, just as they did on the frontier. Sometimes the search for a squeeze led to events and peop


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