Episode 856
The Wild West: everything you wanted to know
Was the American west really as wild as the movies suggest? Karen Jones responds to listener questions about frontier life.
HistoryExtra podcast · Immediate
November 15, 202053m 31s
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Show Notes
Historian and author Karen Jones responds to listener questions and popular search queries about the mass movement of settlers into the American west, from the hardships of homesteading and the violence of frontier life to Hollywood’s obsession with the grizzled gunslinger.
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