How Dangerous Were Wild West Saloons REALLY?

Wild West, Saloons, Gunfights You already know what an Old West saloon looks like. Swinging doors. A piano. A stranger at the bar… and a piano player who has clearly seen this before and is not paid enough to see it again. Somebody says the wrong thing. Chairs scrape. Guns come out. In today's video, we look at How Dangerous Were Wild West Saloons REALLY... Keep watching to see how often gunfights really broke out in Wild West saloons. Also check out:    • Was the Old West Really Drunk Every Single...   #WildWest #OldWestHistory #Saloons You want to go deeper? Sources: Homicide Rates in the American West, by Randolph Roth (Ohio State University, Criminal Justice Research Center): https://cjrc.osu.edu/research/interdi... Cowtowns (Kansas Historical Society, Kansapedia): https://www.kansashistory.gov/kansape... Gun Control Is as Old as the Old West (Smithsonian Magazine): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor... When Dodge City Was Really Wild (HistoryNet): https://historynet.com/when-dodge-cit... Reign of the Rough-Scuff: Law and Lucre in Wichita (HistoryNet): https://historynet.com/reign-of-the-r... Almost Anyone Could Be in the Saloon Business (HistoryNet): https://historynet.com/almost-anyone-... Western saloon (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western... Saloons of the American West (Legends of America): https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-s... Gun regulations made the West not so Wild (Fabius Maximus): https://fabiusmaximus.com/2019/08/07/...