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There probably isn't any other time in American history that has been quite so mythologised,

as that of the Old West.

Ask anyone you know, and they'll probably have some idea in their minds that the western

frontier of the 1800s was full of rugged cowboys riding horses off into the sunset, and

getting inconstant shootouts with Indians or bandits.

We can blame Hollywood for much of what we think we know about the era.

The silver screen has given us a highly inaccurate vision of life on the open range.

Long before superhero movies became all the rage, some of the earliest films being made

were about cowboys.

This dates all the way back to 1903's The Great Train robbery, a silent film about a gang

of outlaws who rob a steam locomotive.

But even before motion pictures came into vogue, stories of cowboys and Indians still had

already worked their way into the public's imagination.

Thanks to the dime novels that began being published around the start of the Civil War,

these were the American cousins of the so-called Penny Dreadfuls that were all the rage in England.

These booklets could be purchased in practically every newsstand or dry goods store in America

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