Long before Hollywood imagined the Wild West, Los Angeles was a real frontier town of gunslingers, lynch mobs, and smoke-belching locomotives. This episode examines L.A.'s efforts to reckon with its violent past by examining hanging trees, remnants of vigilante justice; the massacre of eighteen Chinese immigrants that took place in 1871 near what is now Olvera Street; and railroad promotional campaigns that painted a picture of Los Angeles as a verdant paradise. |
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Title: | Wild West | |
Air Date: | October 17, 2017 | |
Runtime: | 30 min | |
Genres: | History | |
ffRyDe'85 : Pretty tired of Jack Black. Good movie for the family I guess.