In the old West, from what distance could a gunshot be heard?

! ½ miles maybe. That scrub deadens a lot of sound in a hurry.

It would totally depend on the landscape.

In the woods, in the hollows, you’d hear a wide echo that would be hard to pinpoint. Out in the open, it would be a lot more direct, faint, and echo much less if at all. But for an open landscape in the west, @kritiper is fairly accurate I’d say.

Isn’t that kinda like what I said???^^

Around here, if it is early in the morning without much activity, we can hear gunshots from the nearby wildlife management area up to 2 miles away. Those are mostly shotgun blasts from duck hunters. I imagine the sound from an old cowboy revolver would not go that far.
@kritiper nailed it.

@SQUEEKY2 Yeah, that’s what you said. But the OP was quite specific on his terrain.

At 10 paces, you’d feel it before you heard it.