XKCD-2152

Hover text: "Sitting here idly trying to figure out how the population of the Old West in the late 1800s compares to the number of Red Dead Redemption 2 players." — https://xkcd.com/2152/ — This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.

Population of old (1900) American West: 4.277.402 Number of Red Dead Redemption 2 sales: >24 million.

Defining "Western United States"

Alaska • Arizona • California • Colorado • Hawaii • Idaho • Montana • Nevada • New Mexico • Oregon • Utah • Washington • Wyoming

(Apparently Texas isn't old west. I'm surprised!)

1900 USA Census

(Filtered to show only "Western" states)

State	Population
California	1,485,053
Colorado	539,700
Washington	518,103
Oregon	413,536
Utah	276,749
Montana	243,329
New Mexico	195,310
Idaho	161,772
Hawaii	154,001
Arizona	122,931
Wyoming	92,531
Nevada	42,335
Alaska	32,052
Total:	4,277,402

Original post: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2019/05/28/1445/

Original post timestamp: Tue, 28 May 2019 07:59:38 +0000

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Categories: Noteworthy

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