Historian Mark Lee Gardner joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about the Wild West era. Who was the most dangerous outlaw in the old west? What did folks use for toilet paper way back then? How accurate is the depiction of life in the old west in “Red Dead Redemption 2?” Old west historian Mark Lee Gardner covers these questions and plenty more on Wild West Support.
0:00 Yeeeehaaaw!
0:13 The most dangerous outlaw in the Old West
1:09 What is a 49er?
1:29 Which film did it better?
2:38 Music of the Wild West
2:54 “Hit it, Vance!”
4:18 Did the Old West have stricter guns laws than we have now?
5:09 Old West saloon drink menu
5:43 Hats of the Old West
6:58 When did the “Old West” officially end?
7:30 How many buffalo were there?
8:49 Annie are you Oakley?
9:36 Billy The Kid pics
11:27 Black cowboys: Yes
12:16 Branding cattle
13:19 Popularity of the 10 gauge shotgun
14:36 How accurate is Red Dead Redemption?
15:20 Old West literacy rates
16:42 TP of the Old West
17:47 An interesting aside about outhouses
18:14 Shootout etiquette
19:04 Old West cuisine
20:05 Mark’s fave gunslinger
20:42 What was there to do in a saloon?
21:47 Old West deep cuts
22:39 Saloon doors: why?
23:26 Toughest native tribes
24:24 How Custer took the L at Little Big Horn
25:58 Navajo blankets of the 1800s
27:02 When did the Old West start?
28:36 Play us out, fellas.
Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Josh Bane
Editor: Philip Anderson
Expert: Mark Lee Gardner
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer
Camera Operator: Freddie Ochoa
Sound Mixer: Brad Dunn
Production Assistant: Noelle Aguilar
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Jason Malizia
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
Special Thanks: Vance Gardner
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I usually devour these without checking facts but when he talked about buffalo and never mentioned how intentional it was to starve out plains indians i have to say Philip Sheridan enters the conversation and calls BS on this rewrite of history. Do better.
yeah, no doubt. best support episode ever. This is how a great teacher looks like 🙂
Are we sure this isn’t Herbert Moon??
This intro 🎉
As an Assiniboine Sioux your conflation of lakotas and crow is lacking. The Sioux nation was grouping of similar plains tribes like the lakota nakota Dakota and Assiniboine tribes. The crow are just their own one tribe…. Improve my knowledge if I’m wrong
SANTA WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON YT
nice
I live in a old western town, it still has a open saloon
could you guys add more ads to the video next time? i could almost enjoy watching this.
Everyone needs to play call of juares gunslinger instead of rdr ❤
Buffalo were also slaughtered do deprive the First Nations of a vital resource
YOU LOOK LIKE KFC GRANDPA 😳😓
Who else has seen the film “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (2007)? The cinematography (Roger Deakins) is amazing. I find it very strange why it flopped in the box office.
It’s a great movie. But it is long, seemingly meandering, and indulgent. Which is to say a great portrait. But those qualities aren’t good fare for the general population.
This guy has diabetus
This dude knows what the 11 herbs and spices are
24:00 I thought he pulled out the RDR2 map for a quick second 😭😂
is he Nigel West Dickens?
Wow, this guy was an absolute joy to listen to! What a treat
I thought it was Les Claypool when he was singing
Heyyyyy! I’m related to Billy the kid 🙂 glad to see him talked about during the video ❤