How tough was the West

[sloeddie]

In a local paper from a frontier Tesas town in the 1840s comes a description of a day's activities; two street fights, one hanging, three men ridden out of town on a rail, a quarter horse race, some turkey shooting, a gander pulling, a match dog fight, a rousing sermon by a circuit rider who afterward ran a footrace for applejack all around, and, as if this were not enough, the local judge, after losing his year's salary at poker and horsewhiping a person who claimed he didn't understand the game, went out and helped lynch his grandfather for hog-stealing. And this all happened on a sunday.

[doorgod2]

that is when i should of been alive i think i was born in the wrong era

[freeringo]

In a local paper from a frontier Tesas town in the 1840s comes a description of a day's activities; two street fights, one hanging, three men ridden out of town on a rail, a quarter horse race, some turkey shooting, a gander pulling, a match dog fight, a rousing sermon by a circuit rider who afterward ran a footrace for applejack all around, and, as if this were not enough, the local judge, after losing his year's salary at poker and horsewhiping a person who claimed he didn't understand the game, went out and helped lynch his grandfather for hog-stealing. And this all happened on a sunday.

What's so old about that?
These things happen in our town all the time.
Just read the police blotter this morning.

Disturbibg the Peace

Police responded to a call of 10 horses running loose down Main st.

[sloeddie]

yes but did you play poker with the local judge take all his money and get run out of town on a rail??