Wild-West

After Russia's post Communist decade of Wild-West gangster capitalism, in 1998 Transparency International ranked the country as only the 76th most corrupt country out of 180 - square in the middle between more respectable Western countries and those largely from the Third World where anything goes.

Robert Lenzner: It's The Corruption, Stupid Robert Lenzner 2011

It sounds ridiculous to say such a thing on investor-protection grounds, given the Wild-West market mentality so often on display around the Fragrant Harbor.

Yankee, Leave Home Joseph Sternberg 2011

After Russia's post Communist decade of Wild-West gangster capitalism, in 1998 Transparency International ranked the country as only the 76th most corrupt country out of 180 - square in the middle between more respectable Western countries and those largely from the Third World where anything goes.

Robert Lenzner: It's The Corruption, Stupid Robert Lenzner 2011

In any event, most "freaks" moved beyond scientific interpretations of the drug's effects to improvise their own ontologies, epistemologies, and phenomenologies of LSD. 9 These proliferated on a new, Wild-West frontier of psychic experimentation.

Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

The untouched, Wild-West aesthetic of the area has attracted film crews over the years.

Texas Hideout 2006

Allowing for nickel-show and Wild-West suggestions, there remains a touch of a somewhat primitive exploit.

The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work Allan Hoben

In circuses and Wild-West shows one frequently sees cowgirls on the bill.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

This was the first one they had ever seen outside of a circus or a Wild-West show, and he was not like the Indians there.

Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's Laura Lee Hope

Wild-West adventure had ended up happily, for Royal Drake, the erstwhile bandit, did all he could to make up for his "crimes," and even went so far as to take Dorothy to a big tree, in the hollow of which he had hidden considerable loot, during his try at the "wild and wooly."

Dorothy Dale's Camping Days Margaret Penrose

It happened that Colorado Springs was holding a Quarto-Centenary, a kind of Carnival and Wild-West Pageant, to which Vice-President Roosevelt was coming as the chief guest of honor, and as soon as he arrived I called upon him at his hotel.

A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900