an author wrote a book about johnny ringgold called johnny ringgold the gunfighter who never was. think he killed one guy really that we are sure of, the others maybe he did maybe he didn't but he decided to exterminate the guy and that i was washing his face and he had a towel over his face dried his face and ringgold shot him. that's his only real standup shootout. so a lot of these guys were pretty counterfeit. in the 1920s the journalist picked up on it because america had faded from reality in the midst and america wanted hero cowboys in the movies the movies that really inspired that. the first movie with a story the great train robbery in 1903 it was a train robbery. actually butch cassidy and the sundance kid were still robbing trains out west at the time this happened. as the movies got real popular in the 1920s it was really the superhero silver screen heroes, tom nixon and things like that. all the sudden people started thinking these movies are real. this is the way they really were. many people today all they knew about the west is what they see on a movie screen. so