Presents seventeen common beliefs about the Wild West and investigates whether or not they are true.

Did villains in the Wild West really tie their victims to railroad tracks? -- Was there really a gunfight at the O.K. Corral? -- Did thousands of people rush to California when gold was discovered there? -- Did most pioneers live on farms miles away from their neighbors? -- Did kids really go to school in one-room schoolhouses? -- Were horses the most common animal used in the settlement of the West? -- Did cowboys really wear big hats, chaps, and boots? -- Did Native American chiefs wear feather headdresses? -- Did swarms of grasshoppers attack pioneer farms? -- Did stagecoaches really get robbed and attacked on their way West? -- Did workers really drive in a golden spike to finish the transcontinental railroad? -- Were most railroad workers in the West Chinese? -- Was Calamity Jane a real person? -- Did people called buffalo soldiers really fight on the Western frontier (and if so, who were they)? -- Did Native Americans use every part of the buffalo they hunted? -- Were there really haunted ghost towns in the West? -- Did people shout "Remember the Alamo" at a famous battle in the West?.