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In every saloon scene in every Western movie ever made, you’ll see the iconic swinging saloon doors. Swinging saloon doors were real - not a Hollywood invention. Here are 10 fascinating facts about life in the Wild West that are often overlooked by history movies and books. But many aspects of life on the western frontier, however, didn’t make it into pop culture, and they’ve been replaced by inaccurate myths or nearly forgotten altogether. If you’ve done all that, you probably know more about the West than the average American does. You may have watched every episode of Bonanza, died of dysentery playing Oregon Trail, and read all the best Louis L’Amour novels - and, of course, devoured all the stories on (shameful plug) - but do you really know life in the Old West?
