That was TV. Actually, killings were not that common in the wild, wild west, and they weren't ignored. That's why the famous gunfights and the famous gunslingers made such headlines, and their exploits were magnified by the pulp fiction writers like Ted Buntline.
A lot of effort went into tracking down killers. A killing was regarded as a big deal. The killer Bill Longley (The Texan, Rory Calhoun)escaped into Louisiana and was working on a farm about 10 miles from where I live now. It took a couple of years, but they tracked him down and took him back to Dallas for a neck-stretching.
There were random, senseless killings then, as now. One was my paternal great-grandfather: he served in the Confederate army from the beginning to the end, fighting at places like Shiloh, Corinth, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, Resaca, Franklin, Spanish Fort, etc. He came home to a little Louisiana town on the Texas border and in 1873 took a load of buckshot to the back while riding away from a saloon. My grandpa was two at the time. The killer crossed the river into Texas and got away. The shot-riddled shirt GGP was wearing that day was handed down to me. I might post picture of it if you guys want to see it.
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