Tourist Realizes It's All Just A Lie Set In Place For Him

SAGEBRUSH, TX—An excursion to the Sagebrush Wild West Ghost Town ended in disillusionment Saturday, when, over the course of two hours, Lodi, NJ, resident Vic Coyne came to see the ’genuine 1873 frontier village’ for the play-acting fantasy artifice it always was. “I was first taken aback by the blacksmith’s shop with the concrete frame,” Coyne said. “But I figured it could be a reconstruction from old photographs in cooperation with a local historical society.” The final blow, Coyne said, was “the ’old-time’ saloon, in which the bartender’s nametag read ’Smilin’ Joe’ and a menu item read ’Old-Fashioned Sarsaparilla,’ with ’Hires Root Beer’ in parentheses.”