The rip-roaring Old West towns on TV don’t hold a candle to the reality of what became a temporary town located 3 miles east of Sinclair, Wyoming. The end-of-tracks gathering that existed for several months in 1868 as the Union Pacific laid its steel toward Promontory Summit, Utah, was more a riot than a community. It offered 23 saloons, five dance houses, 3,000 people and a reputation akin to the biblical Sodom.