But those who initially went to the West were overtaken by the barbarism of the frontier with astonishing speed – think Lord of the Flies or Heart of Darkness. There was murder, mayhem, robbery, alcoholism, depression, and suicide, and all of it on a positively Homeric scale that still has cultural anthropologists enraptured.
-Simon Winchester
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