^%#@*&%^# %!!@&$&% $%^&$$!!!

If you watched ever Deadwood, you know for a categorical fact that ye olde west was the swearingest place in human history.

For example (NSFW audio, unless you work in a cuss factory!):



But is that really how cowboy times were? Let's check in with Black Diamond and see...

Nope, no-swearing, although there seem to have been plenty of epithets regarding dairy consumption, hair color, and pleasant facial features.

So whom are you going to believe? So fancy-pants high-falutin' Hollywood TV series, or comic books?

I know my answer.

Then again, one can't ignore the evidence of Yosemite Sam:


Hmm, perhaps the issue isn't as open and shut as I thought it was...

From Black Diamond Western #60 (1956). Sadly, the black diamond in the title doesn't refer to Eclipso traveling back in time to corrupt ye olde west...