Don Wildman

How much of the law, the institution of the law, the sheriff, the deputies, all that, how much is that real?

And was it part of a structure that I'm not aware of in terms of how they plant this system in these new territories?

It's so similar to the Pinkertons, you know, anywhere, how private security was really the police force in so many situations that we assume there was government involved and it wasn't.

Well, here you have the exact intersection we're talking about, because the image of the sheriff, the Gary Cooper in High Noon, even Clint Eastwood and his weird guy who wanders around guy.

There are all these moralistic lessons that are being taught in Hollywood, utilizing the canvas of this world, which is so rich and useful for storytelling purposes.

When, in fact, I mean, in Clint Eastwood's case, it's an Italian director shooting in Italy.

You know, it's that far away from reality.

It's amazing.

You know who I love is Wyatt Earp.

You know, famous, of course, from the Tombstone shootout.

But he's the deputy U.S.

marshal in Tombstone, Arizona.

Famous in 1881 for that.

But he goes on.

He has this amazing career afterwards where he ends up in boxing and all sorts of things.

Just this amazing, longer career than we ever give notice to.

But it's... He was...

Kind of typical, I would imagine, of these law enforcement officers out there who come from different backgrounds, who are there for different purposes.

And certainly it's not as ordered and, you know, routine and operation as we see in the movies again or Gunsmoke on TV.

Another character in all of this is the railroad.