[Ads-l] Code of the West
Jonathan Lighter
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Sat Sep 26 13:53:37 UTC 2020
1895 _St. Louis Globe Democrat_ (July 10) 6:
THE CODE OF THE WEST
UNWRITTEN LAWS WHICH WERE OBSERVED
BY DESPERATE MEN IN THEIR HOSTILE MEETINGS
[There follows a lengthy article on the subject. ]
1920 Zane Grey _The Man of the Forest_ (Roslyn, N.Y.: W. J. Black) 362: Las
Vegas had lived up to the code of the West, had dared his man out, had
waited far longer than needful to prove that man a coward.
The phrase was popularized by a 1921 film of the same name, starring Texas
Guinan, and a 1925 feature, _Zane Grey's Code of the West._
There was a 1975 novel by George Voss called _The Man Who Believed in the
Code of the West_.
That was a big mistake.
--
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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