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The Clint Eastwood film 'Unforgiven' prominently features 'English Bob', a British gunslinger who, according to dialogue, 'works for the railroad shooting Chinamen'. How much of this was plausible – the European immigrant gunslinger, the railroad hiring hitmen, and the specifically racist targeting?

by /u/EnclavedMicrostate in /r/AskHistorians

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