No texting. No dating apps. No social media. How did folks find love in the Old West? Find out some frontier dating rituals, and some couples who broke the rules!

Both were lovable sidekicks for the legendary Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke. Let’s break down the differences between the two.

The first time Donald and Kiefer Sutherland shared scenes in a film was in Forsaken — modern Western where father and son met as equals, and a boy’s dream came true.

For a series that ran 20 years, there was never any real angst among the staff over the years, and the Gunsmoke cast even stayed friends well after the series ended.

Joel McCrea was a leading man in some of Hollywood’s finest Westerns, but he never traded his morals for an easy buck at the box office.

While legendary Western authors Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour flourished at opposite ends of the 20th Century, similar forces formed both men.