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- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/15578/
- Published: 2010-09-23T01:12:46.000Z
- Updated: 2010-09-23T01:12:46.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: #wpChunk

The Culture of Violence in the American West: Myth versus Reality: The Independent Review: The Independent Institute  
 http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=803

Dozens of movies have portrayed the nineteenth-century mining camps in the West as hot beds of anarchy and violence, but John Umbeck discovered that, beginning in 1848, the miners began forming contracts with one another to restrain their own behavior.