A fumetti of the old TV series F-Troop. If you believe what you see on TV and in the movies, the Old West was a place of constant violence and turmoil. And while there sure was plenty of that, people who want a good story tend to exaggerate. And if you want a good story badly enough, you’re prone to being taken in by someone. One of history’s greatest hoaxes took place in the 1870s in the out-of-the-way town of Palisades, Nevada (population 300,) tucked away in the north-central part of the state. If you were in Palisades, you were probably on your way to somewhere else. In fact, getting to somewhere else was Palisades’ main industry: it was the terminus of the Eureka & Palisade railroad, and also served as a departure point for wagon trains and stagecoaches in the region. According to legend, a railroad conductor mentioned to a Palisades resident that his passengers felt let down that the Wild West wasn’t as wild as they’d been reading in the dime novels back east.