Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

The Old West, a time of change and growth, of outlaws and renegades, gunfights in the

streets, and swift justice without all the red tape.

Disagreements were settled when they happened, and often the only form of mediation required

was a bullet.

If the movie's television shows and video games we all experienced are true, the Old West

was a time when laws met less than one's personal code of honor.

If someone thought you did them wrong, you made it right, or you died trying.

One man thought Robert Fallon had done them wrong during a poker game in 1858.

It happened in San Francisco just eight years after California joined the country as a

full-fledged state.

The city was growing out from under the thumb of Mexico's rule, and planting the seeds

of the San Francisco we know today.

Originally nothing more than a trading post for the West, San Francisco's dirt roads

had been paved over and its hills leveled for new homes and businesses.

One of those new businesses happened to be a saloon.

You'd recognize the scene immediately.

A dusty wooden floor, men and heavy jackets and tall hats, all sitting around a table drinking

whiskey, and in one dark corner, a game of cards with the stakes higher than they'd ever

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