The Wild West Wasn't So Wild After All!

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Mention the West to the average person, and images of gunfights, barfights, and train robberies appear in their mind. Recently. historians have begun to refute these visions, though. Learn about what made the Wild West really quite tame compared to today's civilization from the words of historians like Thomas E. Woods, Jr, Terry Anderson, and Peter Hill. Then listen to old westerners like Buffalo Bill Cody, J. H. Beadle, and a gold miner tell what they knew about the "Wild West."

Inspired by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.: "Was the 'Wild West' Really So Wild?" in 33 Questions About American History You're not Supposed to Ask (book)

Other sources include:

Abbot, E. C. & Smith, Helena Huntington. We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher (book)
Anderson, Terry L. & Hill, Peter J. The Not So Wild, Wild West (book). Morriss, Andrew P. "Hayek & Cowboys: Customary Law in the American West" in NYU Journal of Law & Liberty (journal). Retrieved from heinonline.org/
Tierney, John. "The Mild, Mild West" in The New York Times (newspaper). Retrieved from search.proquest.com.proxy.lccc.wy.edu/

Entered in the Wyoming State 4-H FilmFest.

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Directed by Thomas A. Christensen II

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