The Deadly Cost Of Honor In Texas | Bryan Burrough On The Wild West

🎙️ Listen to the full episode with Bryan Burrough and Ryan Holiday on The Daily Stoic Podcast: https://dailystoic.com/the-deadly-cost-of-honor-in-the-wild-west-bryan-burrough/ 📚 Get Bryan Burrough's books "The Gunfighters", "Public Enemies", "Forget The Alamo", and "The Big Rich" here: https://www.thepaintedporch.com/search?type=product&q=bryan+burrough* 📖 Preorder the final book in Ryan Holiday's Stoic Virtues Series: https://store.dailystoic.com/pages/wisdom-takes-work ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 🤝 Join the largest community of Stoics ever in history and get exclusive bonuses at https://dailystoiclife.com Instagram: ​https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic X: https://x.com/dailystoic Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dailystoic TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic #Stoicism​ #DailyStoic​ #RyanHoliday​ In this episode: 00:00:00-00:01:06 Intro 00:01:06-00:08:04 Why We’re Obsessed with Outlaws and Criminals 00:08:04-00:10:40 Understanding Honor Culture in America 00:10:40-00:15:53 Open Carry Laws: Then vs. Now 00:15:53-00:18:30 What Gunfights Tell Us About Human Nature 00:19:44-00:23:03 Bryan Burrough on the Power of Honor 00:23:05-00:29:42 The Stoic Debate: Honor vs. Virtue 00:29:42-00:30:30 A Wild Quote from Lyndon B. Johnson 00:30:30-00:38:49 Why We Mythologize Cowboys 00:38:49-00:44:40 No Law Enforcement in the Early Wild West 00:45:45-00:48:20 The Advancement of the Frontier 00:48:29-00:49:18 Why We Still Refer to “The Wild West” 00:49:20-00:53:54 The Most Iconic Quote in Western History 00:54:00-00-58:57 Migration Patterns To and From Texas 00-58:57-01:03:40 The American Dream: “It Could Be Me”