Entertainment for CPRR passengers at the Palisade, Nevada train stop

"For several years during the early 1870s, all passing Central Pacific Railroad trains made a brief stop in Palisade for water and wood. When passengers disembarked to stretch their legs, they suddenly encountered a crowd of angry, armed thugs. A fight would erupt ... a gruesomely realistic shoot-out that was held just about every time a train stopped in the town."

[Courtesy Google Alerts.]