![]() The Wild West was being mythologised before the era even ended, with gunslinging cowboys and lawmen representing freedom and tough justice living the original American Dream. What was it like meeting Queen Victoria? 6 royal encounters as told by famous Victorians.Annie Oakley: the most famous sharpshooter in America.Three months before the OK Corral, on 14 July, Sheriff Pat Garret gunned down Billy the Kid, while earlier, in April, the ‘Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight’ had taken place in the infamously lawless town of El Paso, Texas. That year, 1881, was one of the wildest 12 months in the American Old West, at least as big-name shootouts go. It was borne from a simmering feud involving ageold themes – jealousy, power, money, mistrust and machismo – which, in the febrile booze-and bullet-filled atmosphere of the time, got out of hand. In the grand scheme of things, the gunfight was a minor, albeit lethal, scuffle.
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