Of course that was before the days of drugs, automatic weapons and street gangs that would extract revenge for even the most minor of offenses. We live in a different world from that of Wyatt Earp and there is much good to say about "life in the old days" and how people treated people however I am not advocating a return to those days. For me, the good old days were in the forties and fifties.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Sound philosophy...
I love this comment that Virgil Earp, a nephew of Wyatt, made in 1958: Virgil said: "A woman was safer in the Wild West than she would be today in midtown Manhattan. In the old days, there was no such thing as juvenile delinquency, no house robberies and no organized government. There was just good men and bad men - and the policy was a life for a life."
Of course that was before the days of drugs, automatic weapons and street gangs that would extract revenge for even the most minor of offenses. We live in a different world from that of Wyatt Earp and there is much good to say about "life in the old days" and how people treated people however I am not advocating a return to those days. For me, the good old days were in the forties and fifties.
Of course that was before the days of drugs, automatic weapons and street gangs that would extract revenge for even the most minor of offenses. We live in a different world from that of Wyatt Earp and there is much good to say about "life in the old days" and how people treated people however I am not advocating a return to those days. For me, the good old days were in the forties and fifties.
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