How the West Was Lost

The Great Continental Divide, more appropriately known to most Easterners as the Continental Divide of the Americas, but nope, not out here in the Western country past the great Missourah and the grand ole Miss. In the days long before the gold rush struggling G.I. men, in the days where gender roles were unheard of in them there of the West. Long before that coastline got an eyeful, there were in between places, and a whole lot of empty spaces, in between those places. They were a pocketful of nightmares the G.I. men couldn't muster enough people to fill in the gaps. A lot of wild stories did spread a foreboding to the scant few who were just desperate to make anything to move. Claims were jumped on, and as it was always the way west, that the gun ruled and the law hid behind that gun. The good did die young. And the law stayed low. Gold rush so did the people, but still, the gun rule and the law stayed hidden. In time, things changed for the better, as a gun was hidden and the law, for what it's worth, saw sunlight. That same sun had shone over the cemeteries too. Besides dates and names, was the word, GOOD. That is where the real West lies--not by what you see, but by what you don't. Yep, by golly gee! The GOOD people of the West are all laid to RIP.