Outlaws & Gunslingers

Name: Outlaws & Gunslingers
Released: 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary

Produced by award-winning production company Centre Communications, this series serves as a follow-up to their smash hit The Great Indian Wars 1540 - 1890. This is the story of the West as it has never been told before. Myth and legend stripped away.

2012 · 31m

EPISODE 1

Origins of the Gunslinger

Origins of the Gunslinger - Texas Rangers Captain John Coffee "Jack" Hayes, Texas Ranger Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker, Samuel Colt. An up close and personal look at how weapons evolved over time, and had a significant impact first on combat between Natives and westward settlers, and second between bandits and law enforcement.
EPISODE 2

Jesse James and the Southern Guerillas

Jesse James and the Southern Guerillas – William Quantrill, Bloody Bill Anderson, Detective Allen Pinkerton, Cole Younger, Frank and Jesse James.
EPISODE 3

Billy the Kid and the Lone Outlaws

Billy the Kid and the Lone Outlaws – Ben Thompson, Clay Allison. Billy the Kid was an aggressively violent criminal who is also remembered by some as a hero during these turbulent decades. While you can debate the actual number of persons he killed, you can´t argue his lasting popularity.
EPISODE 4

Wild Bill Hickok and the Lawmen

Origin of the Lawman in the West, Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson. Along with W.H. Harris, Charlie Bassett, Neal Brown, Frank McLain, Wyatt Earp.
EPISODE 5

Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the OK Corral

The Gunfight, Tombstone, the Old West Today. The most well-known gunfight from these years, the Gunfight at the OK Corral symbolized the entire era in a nutshell as a violent conflict between order and disarray.