You would be statistically more likely to be gunned down in Victorian London than the American Wild West

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... apparently the Native American Indians didn't give much of a shit about being at one with the living Earth,but they were masacred down from a population of 2 million in 1835 to 90,000 in 1895. They in turn killed 362 people.

More modern research suggested there were >>100 million Indians in North and South American on the even of Columbus's landing, and 20-30 million lived in what is now United States.

It also suggest the American prairie and the east coast forest land which had been symbols of the untamed American wilderness were in fact not natural ecosystems.. They were the result of Indian land management techniques which were ecologically some of the most destructive ever practiced by pre-iron age cultures. Indian land management by controlled fire on a vast scale has been linked to change in global atomspheric CO2 content and global temperature between 5th - 10th century.