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Fun Facts - June 2008

Circling Your Wagon? Or Circling The Truth?

June 30th 2008 08:20
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We all remember the old American Cowboy versus the Indians movies, but did you know that one particular part involved in some of these plots was just an invention of the movie directors?

Quite a number of these old movies show the wagons circling upon Indian attack in order to protect themselves. However, the actual time taken to actually get one of these bulky, akward wagons to circle would actually have been the the Indians' advantage as they would have been able to scalp the oncoming persons with ease.

Hollywood actually dreamed it up because it looked good on film, but actually the only time any real wagon circling would have occurred would have been at night time in an attempt to create a corral for the animals.

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