stevie_d_64 wrote:
It was also perceived by the public (at one time) that only criminals, or people of dubious background with ill intent, would carry a gun concealed...I believe I remember that was in the Time Life book set called the "Old West" in the "Gunfighters" volume...
The level of historical scholarship of such books is generally very questionable. Those same types of books told tales of medieval knights who had to be lifted onto their horses by windlass, which is patently inaccurate, as an example.