I'd heard about the town long before I ever thought of going there. Cimarron has a history of outlaws, bandits, gratuitous violence and just plain rudeness, and that legacy has shaped Cimarron into a scrappy, scruffy little place. If you wanted to pick a fight with a town, Cimarron would be the wrong one to choose. Their presence made Cimarron notorious for violence and mayhem.
Cimarron even translates roughly.
So I was nervous as I drove into town. But I worried about historical leftovers. Cimarron is a town tied up inextricably in its own past. There's even a list of people who were killed in the hotel posted in the lobby. I unpacked my Neosporin and set in on the table by the bed, just in case.