What The Wild West Actually Looked Like in 48 Revealing Snapshots

John Wayne-type films got some things about the American West right ��� but even more things wrong.

These authentic photographs of the American frontier reveal what life was actually like in the "Wild West."

What The Wild West Actually Looked Like In 48 Photos Contrary to popular assumptions, cowboys were poor laborers of low social status, with as many as half of them being either Mexican or African-American.

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