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Centuries Collide

Cody Crouch - Centuries Collide | OG’s

December 28, 2024 | S2:E7

Cody Crouch - Centuries Collide | OG’s
This is a look back at the Original Gangsters of American history. The infamous bank robbers, mobsters, and gunfighters that make up the real OG’s of America’s past and what became of them.
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Centuries Collide | Cody Crouch - Centuries Collide | OG’s | December 28, 2024
  • - i am cody crouch, and this is the craziest
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  • Crash course on american history you'll ever see.
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  • Buckle up.
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  • It's time for centuries collide.
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  • [horse whinnies] ♪♪
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  • Howdy, partner. welcome to centuries collide .
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  • At this point in america's history,
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  • It's the 1860s.
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  • We've been through a lot.
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  • We've survived the civil war, the union is intact,
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  • And thanks to railroads, our civilization is
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  • Spreading faster and farther than ever before.
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  • On the east coast to the west coast and everything
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  • In between.
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  • America looks a little something like this.
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  • You've got all the familiar states on the
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  • East coast, california, on the west coast, and
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  • All these territories in between.
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  • This is the american frontier, and let me tell
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  • You, this place is wild.
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  • Gold diggers are headed out here to the west.
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  • Native americans are desperately clinging to
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  • Their land and their way of life.
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  • Freed black men are forging their own paths,
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  • And cattlemen are just trying to take care of
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  • Their cattle, man.
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  • But one character looms a little larger than the
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  • Rest way out here in the west.
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  • It's the american outlaw.
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  • This is the era of jesse james, butch cassidy, and
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  • Billy the kid, or as i like to call this cast of
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  • Characters, the og's, the original gangsters.
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  • ♪♪
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  • As americans, we have a habit of not liking
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  • Rules, never more obvious than in the late 1800s.
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  • In the words of a great american war hero, obi-wan
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  • Kenobi, you'll never find a more wretched hive
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  • Of scum and villainy.
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  • Welcome to the wild, wild west. saddle up, partner.
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  • It's time for centuries collide.
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  • ♪♪
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  • The year is 1865.
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  • The civil war is over, america's rebuilding, and
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  • We're finally getting back to what we do best.
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  • Expanding. by now,
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  • The east was pretty well settled.
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  • The roads were paved with brick, the culture was
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  • Well established, and laws were in place.
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  • And if you've been paying attention to american
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  • History so far, you may have noticed that folks
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  • Around these parts don't take kindly to
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  • Too many rules.
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  • The east was old news and americans were looking
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  • For something shiny and new like gold.
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  • Let's rewind a little bit to january 18th, 1848.
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  • A man by the name of james w.
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  • Marshall was overseeing the construction of a
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  • Sawmill. while his crew was working,
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  • James made an important discovery.
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  • - we got her now boys.
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  • - the gold found on that construction site just a
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  • Few miles north of here was the real deal.
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  • Even president james k.
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  • Polk said so.
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  • - it's so shiny,
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  • I can see my future in it.
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  • - that little piece of gold is what inspired the
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  • California gold rush.
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  • In fact, the next year, 1849, about a hundred
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  • Thousand people flooded to california in search of gold.
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  • - and that's how they got the name
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  • The 49ers, just like the football team. [thud] ouch.
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  • ♪♪
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  • - all of these people heading west needed tools
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  • And supplies, places to stay, restaurants to eat
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  • In, saloons to drink in, fancy shoes for
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  • Their horses.
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  • All of this attracted a lot of legit
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  • Professionals like bankers, miners, lawyers,
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  • As well as some not legit professionals
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  • Like gangsters.
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  • But then ... - we interrupt this regularly
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  • Scheduled program for the american civil war.
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  • - it was a war that pitted brother against brother,
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  • And friend against friend.
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  • The union states in the north emerged victorious
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  • Against the confederate states in the south.
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  • The reason for this brutal conflict was the
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  • Argument over state rights and slavery. with
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  • The union fighting for the preservation of the
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  • Nation and the confederacy fighting for
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  • Their independence,
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  • The civil war became the bloodiest showdown in
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  • American history, and it was brutal.
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  • For the first time in war, sharpshooters and
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  • Snipers were a thing.
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  • Calvary charges and cannon fire ripped
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  • Through the battle lines.
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  • Bravery and honor clashed in a battle for the very
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  • Soul of the nation.
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  • Despite the staggering losses on both sides, the
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  • North's victory ensured the preservation of our
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  • Union, the end of slavery.
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  • ♪♪
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  • 0 so back to 1865 and back to american expansion.
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  • The east equals old news and lots of rules,
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  • But out here in the west, it's pure frontier wild
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  • And untamed,
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  • Cowboys and indians, gunslingers and pioneers.
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  • And yes, gangsters,
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  • Gangsters just like william henry mccarty jr.
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  • ♪♪
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  • William was born in 1859, and like the wrong
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  • Kind of salsa, his story starts all the way back
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  • On the east coast in new york city.
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  • - [together] new york city?!
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  • - like most of our gangsters,
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  • William had a pretty tough life.
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  • His father died when he was just a kid.
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  • His mom moved him to kansas city, got
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  • Remarried and eventually moved them to new mexico.
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  • There, william fit in pretty well.
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  • Before long he was even fluent in spanish.
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  • - excuse me, senor. [speaks spanish]
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  • - william would get his own gangster nickname,
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  • But not until he committed his first
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  • Official crime, which goes something like this.
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  • He and sombrero jack steal clothing from a
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  • Chinese laundry.
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  • Okay, i know this sounds like the setup for a
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  • Super racist walk into a bar joke, but what can i say?
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  • History's just not woke, y'all.
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  • And that's the story of how william and sombrero
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  • Jack got away with possibly the lamest crime
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  • In the wild, wild west, but william didn't really
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  • Get away with it.
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  • He was caught and sent to the local jailhouse.
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  • Don't worry. just like an og,
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  • He escaped by pulling the classic reverse santa
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  • Claus maneuver through the jailhouse chimney.
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  • - feliz navidad.
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  • - that's right.
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  • He literally climbed his way up and out of
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  • The chimney.
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  • William was now an outlaw.
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  • He survived by working as a ranch hand, a gambler
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  • And a gang member.
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  • He taught himself to shoot with a winchester
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  • Rifle and a colt revolver.
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  • And then in august of 1877, shot and killed his
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  • First man right here in an arizona saloon.
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  • - i'll take that. - little willie had moved on
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  • To major crimes and eventually got that
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  • Gangster nickname.
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  • - sombrero jack.
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  • Look! i got my own nickname.
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  • - look at that.
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  • [hip hop music playing]
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  • - that's right.
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  • Thanks to his tiny size and childish looks,
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  • William mccarty became famously known as
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  • Billy the kid.
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  • But in 1878, billy really earned his reputation as
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  • A gun slinging and bad boy in a bloody turf war in
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  • New mexico between two rival cattlemen.
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  • So you remember how the east had all those
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  • Pesky rules?
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  • Well, it turns out, with all that law and order
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  • Actually comes a lot more safety, but the western
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  • Frontier was expanding so fast that law and order
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  • Had a hard time catching up.
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  • There became a rivalry between two cattle tycoons,
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  • The british john tunstall on one side and two
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  • Irishmen, james dolan and lawrence murphy on
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  • The other.
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  • - that's a nice little gun you've got there.
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  • Where'd you get it?
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  • - british john hired billy the kid to be a part of
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  • His posse, and they called themselves
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  • The regulators.
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  • Ultimately, their boss was murdered by a posse,
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  • Organized by a crooked sheriff who supported the
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  • Irish duo.
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  • That's when billy the kid and the regulators went
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  • And assassinated the sheriff and spent the
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  • Next several months in a bloody turf war known as
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  • The lincoln county war.
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  • Billy, the kid survived the lincoln county war
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  • And his reputation as one of the most skilled
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  • Gunmen in the west became legendary, but billy
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  • Couldn't outrun the law forever.
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  • Eventually, he was caught and shot to death by a
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  • Not so crooked sheriff named pat garrett at the
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  • Young age of 22.
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  • This baby-faced outlaw lived at a time of
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  • Frontier justice.
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  • If you were a young, fast thinking, quick draw and
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  • Rebel, you could survive at least for a while, but
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  • You could also make a big name for yourself and in
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  • The future have movies and tv shows made about
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  • Your life.
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  • And if you're really lucky, brad pitt might
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  • Just play you.
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  • Just ask our next og,
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  • Jesse james.
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  • ♪♪
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  • Jesse's family were slave owning farmers from
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  • Kearney, missouri, and they were hardcore
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  • Confederates as in the bad guys in the
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  • Civil war.
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  • When the war started, jesse's older brother,
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  • Frank, proudly went to go fight for the
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  • Confederacy, leaving his little brother behind.
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  • Jesse's older brother
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  • Frank was quite the original gangster
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  • Himself, like the worst kind.
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  • He hung around a rowdy group of pro confederate
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  • Guerrilla warriors, and they were so notorious
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  • And wanted that a union militia known as the
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  • Jayhawkers showed up to jesse's house looking
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  • For frank.
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  • The jayhawkers allegedly roughed up young jesse
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  • And then tortured his stepfather for
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  • Information on frank.
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  • Whatever happened that day was bad enough to
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  • Turn 16-year-old jesse to the dark side.
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  • - come to the dark side.
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  • It's the only way to save your friends.
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  • - jesse james gave in to the anger and hate.
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  • He joined his own bloodthirsty guerrilla
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  • Group of sith lord confederates known as the
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  • Bush whackers. - we're the bush wackers,
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  • A guerrilla gang.
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  • ♪♪
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  • - jesse and the bush wackers rained fiery
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  • Terror on their union enemies,
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  • The jay hawkers. the bloodiest and most
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  • Ruthless of these battles was known as the
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  • Centralia massacre.
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  • Picture this, it's nine o'clock in the morning.
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  • Jesse james and his fellow bush whackers
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  • Disguised as union soldiers invade the small
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  • Town of centralia, missouri.
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  • They loot the town and they drink whiskey from
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  • Stolen boots.
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  • - hold up, pretty lady.
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  • We ain't done with you yet.
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  • You ain't leaving until you pour that there
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  • Whiskey in my boot. - which according to
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  • Scientific study is equally mean and disgusting.
  • 00:10:49.772 --> 00:10:53.876
  • The bush wackers then stop a train full of
  • 00:10:53.876 --> 00:10:55.945
  • Union soldiers who were returning home from
  • 00:10:55.945 --> 00:10:58.414
  • The civil war.
  • 00:10:58.414 --> 00:10:59.915
  • Jesse and his posse brutally massacred
  • 00:10:59.915 --> 00:11:02.852
  • 24 unarmed soldiers.
  • 00:11:02.852 --> 00:11:04.453
  • They scalped and mutilated their bodies
  • 00:11:04.453 --> 00:11:07.823
  • And then torched the train for good measure.
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  • ♪♪
  • 00:11:11.494 --> 00:11:15.003
  • ♪♪
  • 00:11:15.003 --> 00:11:19.869
  • After the civil war, most people calmed down,
  • 00:11:20.770 --> 00:11:23.205
  • But not jesse and frank james.
  • 00:11:23.205 --> 00:11:25.040
  • They were humiliated by the loss of the civil war.
  • 00:11:25.040 --> 00:11:27.676
  • They saw themselves as the victims,
  • 00:11:27.676 --> 00:11:30.412
  • And they refused to live under the villainous
  • 00:11:30.412 --> 00:11:33.582
  • Tyrannical rule of abraham lincoln.
  • 00:11:33.582 --> 00:11:37.620
  • - you know what i think about this guy?
  • 00:11:37.620 --> 00:11:39.688
  • I hate him.
  • 00:11:39.688 --> 00:11:41.457
  • - i hope he watches the worst play ever.
  • 00:11:41.457 --> 00:11:44.994
  • - me too.
  • 00:11:44.994 --> 00:11:47.530
  • - yeah, these guys were the worst.
  • 00:11:47.530 --> 00:11:50.466
  • A few years later, frank and jesse strike again,
  • 00:11:50.466 --> 00:11:53.235
  • And this time they rob a bank,
  • 00:11:53.235 --> 00:11:55.671
  • But they only make off with some warped paper.
  • 00:11:55.671 --> 00:11:58.874
  • - we lost him again!
  • 00:11:58.874 --> 00:12:01.010
  • - we always lose 'em!
  • 00:12:01.010 --> 00:12:03.245
  • - the newspapers started taking notice,
  • 00:12:03.245 --> 00:12:05.447
  • And just like a gen-z kid with low self-esteem,
  • 00:12:05.447 --> 00:12:08.384
  • Jesse couldn't get enough of the attention.
  • 00:12:08.384 --> 00:12:11.487
  • - looking like you're wanted dead or alive, jesse.
  • 00:12:11.487 --> 00:12:16.325
  • - yeah, wanted by most women.
  • 00:12:16.325 --> 00:12:18.661
  • [laughing]
  • 00:12:18.661 --> 00:12:19.995
  • - jesse actually started adapting his crime strategy
  • 00:12:19.995 --> 00:12:23.165
  • To what would get the most media attention.
  • 00:12:23.165 --> 00:12:25.868
  • Sometimes he'd even leave his own press release
  • 00:12:25.868 --> 00:12:28.103
  • At the scene of the crime.
  • 00:12:28.103 --> 00:12:30.773
  • Diabolical?
  • 00:12:30.773 --> 00:12:32.074
  • Absolutely, but way ahead of the curve.
  • 00:12:32.074 --> 00:12:34.944
  • I mean, guys, listen, this is 150 years
  • 00:12:34.944 --> 00:12:38.013
  • Before the kardashians.
  • 00:12:38.013 --> 00:12:39.615
  • - we've been robbed. somebody help.
  • 00:12:39.615 --> 00:12:41.650
  • We've been robbed.
  • 00:12:41.650 --> 00:12:43.018
  • - oh no. it's okay, honey.
  • 00:12:43.018 --> 00:12:44.286
  • The robber left a press release.
  • 00:12:44.286 --> 00:12:47.756
  • You have been robbed by jesse james,
  • 00:12:47.756 --> 00:12:51.560
  • But don't worry, jesse's not a bad guy.
  • 00:12:51.560 --> 00:12:55.331
  • He's actually the good guy here because
  • 00:12:55.331 --> 00:12:57.066
  • He's an underprivileged southerner who deserves
  • 00:12:57.066 --> 00:12:59.468
  • The money more than you do.
  • 00:12:59.468 --> 00:13:03.539
  • Also he's super good looking...
  • 00:13:03.539 --> 00:13:06.909
  • And hot.
  • 00:13:06.909 --> 00:13:09.311
  • - well, that puts me at ease.
  • 00:13:09.311 --> 00:13:11.714
  • - jesse found a friend and ally in a newspaper
  • 00:13:11.714 --> 00:13:14.483
  • Editor named john newman edwards.
  • 00:13:14.483 --> 00:13:16.852
  • Together these two were going to stick it
  • 00:13:16.852 --> 00:13:19.121
  • To the union man with their twisted
  • 00:13:19.121 --> 00:13:21.590
  • Anti-republican fake news.
  • 00:13:21.590 --> 00:13:24.026
  • - i don't want to be known just for my good looks.
  • 00:13:24.026 --> 00:13:27.463
  • I want the people to know that i'm bold and heroic.
  • 00:13:27.463 --> 00:13:34.637
  • - we are not thieves.
  • 00:13:35.137 --> 00:13:38.073
  • We are bold robbers.
  • 00:13:38.073 --> 00:13:42.611
  • I am not ashamed of the name,
  • 00:13:43.245 --> 00:13:46.181
  • For alexander the great was a bold robber.
  • 00:13:46.181 --> 00:13:51.987
  • Julius caesar and napoleon bonaparte.
  • 00:13:51.987 --> 00:13:59.461
  • - i don't know. too much?
  • 00:13:59.461 --> 00:14:02.431
  • - well, i'll just tell 'em you're on the
  • 00:14:02.431 --> 00:14:04.099
  • Right side of history.
  • 00:14:04.099 --> 00:14:05.768
  • - well, am i?
  • 00:14:05.768 --> 00:14:07.836
  • - does it matter?
  • 00:14:07.836 --> 00:14:10.172
  • [laughter]
  • 00:14:10.172 --> 00:14:11.874
  • - not that he ever did anything to help the poor,
  • 00:14:11.874 --> 00:14:13.909
  • But the public ate it up.
  • 00:14:13.909 --> 00:14:20.816
  • In the 1870s, jesse and his gang went on a
  • 00:14:21.717 --> 00:14:23.719
  • Legendary crime spree.
  • 00:14:23.719 --> 00:14:25.821
  • They robbed trains, banks, stage coaches.
  • 00:14:25.821 --> 00:14:29.558
  • They looted businesses and they killed many
  • 00:14:29.558 --> 00:14:32.194
  • People, and they kept getting away with it.
  • 00:14:32.194 --> 00:14:34.563
  • But how?
  • 00:14:34.563 --> 00:14:35.798
  • Because people actually believed all this fake news.
  • 00:14:35.798 --> 00:14:40.002
  • Seriously, jesse had created an image of a
  • 00:14:40.002 --> 00:14:43.005
  • Hero in the eyes of southern sympathizers
  • 00:14:43.005 --> 00:14:46.208
  • Who believed that the confederates were on the
  • 00:14:46.208 --> 00:14:48.043
  • Right side of history.
  • 00:14:48.043 --> 00:14:49.712
  • So they hid jesse in their homes and they
  • 00:14:49.712 --> 00:14:52.247
  • Covered for his terrible crimes.
  • 00:14:52.247 --> 00:14:59.000
  • Covered for his terrible crimes.
  • 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:02.558
  • By 1876, jesse and his gang started feeling a
  • 00:15:03.492 --> 00:15:05.894
  • Little too unstoppable.
  • 00:15:05.894 --> 00:15:08.230
  • They ventured up to minnesota,
  • 00:15:08.230 --> 00:15:09.932
  • Hundreds of miles north and far from their
  • 00:15:09.932 --> 00:15:12.201
  • Southern sympathizing friends.
  • 00:15:12.201 --> 00:15:14.236
  • When jesse tried to rob a bank,
  • 00:15:14.236 --> 00:15:15.971
  • These minnesota town folk shut him down.
  • 00:15:15.971 --> 00:15:19.575
  • They shot two members of jesse's gang and hunted
  • 00:15:19.575 --> 00:15:21.744
  • The other ones down.
  • 00:15:21.744 --> 00:15:23.178
  • And once again, only jesse and frank escaped.
  • 00:15:23.178 --> 00:15:27.349
  • By now, frank had had enough.
  • 00:15:27.349 --> 00:15:28.984
  • He was done being a gangster, but not jesse.
  • 00:15:28.984 --> 00:15:32.755
  • He tried to form a new gang,
  • 00:15:32.755 --> 00:15:34.356
  • But his posse eventually turned on and shot him
  • 00:15:34.356 --> 00:15:36.759
  • In the back for a $10,000 reward.
  • 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:39.328
  • His murderous crime spree was finally over.
  • 00:15:39.328 --> 00:15:41.463
  • But thanks to his diabolical media savvy
  • 00:15:41.463 --> 00:15:43.599
  • Ways, his legend continues to this day.
  • 00:15:43.599 --> 00:15:49.571
  • The period that we call the wild west really only
  • 00:15:49.571 --> 00:15:52.408
  • Lasted like 30 years, but it never seems that we'll
  • 00:15:52.408 --> 00:15:55.844
  • Be done telling and retelling these epic stories.
  • 00:15:55.844 --> 00:15:59.782
  • I mean, have you heard of belle starr?
  • 00:15:59.782 --> 00:16:07.523
  • Belle was born into a well-to-do
  • 00:16:08.257 --> 00:16:09.858
  • Family in missouri.
  • 00:16:09.858 --> 00:16:11.126
  • She was classically educated as well as
  • 00:16:11.126 --> 00:16:13.362
  • A trained pianist.
  • 00:16:13.362 --> 00:16:15.230
  • So what in the world would motivate a sweet
  • 00:16:15.230 --> 00:16:18.233
  • Young girl like her to become a famous outlaw?
  • 00:16:18.233 --> 00:16:22.137
  • - boys...bad boys. [giggles]
  • 00:16:22.137 --> 00:16:25.441
  • - belle starr was only a teenager when her family
  • 00:16:25.441 --> 00:16:27.876
  • Hid the ultimate bad boy, jesse james, in their
  • 00:16:27.876 --> 00:16:31.680
  • Home, and apparently belle was smitten with jesse.
  • 00:16:31.680 --> 00:16:35.451
  • In the coming years, belle would marry
  • 00:16:35.451 --> 00:16:37.086
  • Not one, not two,
  • 00:16:37.086 --> 00:16:39.121
  • But three outlaws.
  • 00:16:39.121 --> 00:16:41.757
  • - what? bad boys?
  • 00:16:41.757 --> 00:16:44.193
  • Lots and lots of bad boys.
  • 00:16:44.193 --> 00:16:49.164
  • - one of belle star's husbands was named sam starr.
  • 00:16:49.164 --> 00:16:52.501
  • Sam was an outlaw and desperado known for
  • 00:16:52.501 --> 00:16:55.537
  • Cattle theft or cattle wrestling.
  • 00:16:55.537 --> 00:16:58.006
  • Belle and sam formed a gang of bandits that
  • 00:16:58.006 --> 00:17:00.642
  • Terrorized texas and then indian territory,
  • 00:17:00.642 --> 00:17:03.779
  • Now known as oklahoma.
  • 00:17:03.779 --> 00:17:05.781
  • The gangster couples stole horses from wealthy
  • 00:17:05.781 --> 00:17:08.250
  • Ranchers and sold them to native american tribes.
  • 00:17:08.250 --> 00:17:12.121
  • Their criminal activities eventually
  • 00:17:12.121 --> 00:17:13.989
  • Caught up with them when sam was killed in a shootout
  • 00:17:13.989 --> 00:17:17.459
  • And belle was arrested for her involvement in
  • 00:17:17.459 --> 00:17:20.162
  • The gang's activities. she was a bootlegger,
  • 00:17:20.162 --> 00:17:23.165
  • She harbored fugitives,
  • 00:17:23.165 --> 00:17:25.000
  • And she even shot and killed the u.s. marshal,
  • 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:27.469
  • Eventually earning the name of bandit queen,
  • 00:17:27.469 --> 00:17:30.606
  • And i bet you know how her story ends.
  • 00:17:30.606 --> 00:17:33.242
  • Yeah, shot in the back, although we don't know
  • 00:17:33.242 --> 00:17:35.911
  • Exactly who did it.
  • 00:17:35.911 --> 00:17:37.679
  • Of course, the suspect list includes
  • 00:17:37.679 --> 00:17:39.414
  • Several ex-boyfriends.
  • 00:17:39.414 --> 00:17:41.717
  • You know, love hurts.
  • 00:17:41.717 --> 00:17:46.004
  • You know, love hurts.
  • 00:17:46.004 --> 00:17:50.059
  • Now, i've got to tell you about my absolute
  • 00:17:50.994 --> 00:17:53.363
  • Favorite, a guy named bass reeves.
  • 00:17:53.363 --> 00:17:57.400
  • This guy was pure gangster with a twist.
  • 00:17:58.234 --> 00:18:03.039
  • He was actually the good guy.
  • 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:05.008
  • Now, i saved this story for last,
  • 00:18:05.008 --> 00:18:06.543
  • Not only because it's the best,
  • 00:18:06.543 --> 00:18:08.645
  • But because he also helped bring an end to
  • 00:18:08.645 --> 00:18:10.914
  • The violent criminal gangster that was
  • 00:18:10.914 --> 00:18:13.049
  • Run in the wild west.
  • 00:18:13.049 --> 00:18:14.884
  • Bass was born into slavery in the
  • 00:18:14.884 --> 00:18:16.586
  • Southern state of arkansas.
  • 00:18:16.586 --> 00:18:19.122
  • When his master's son george went to join the
  • 00:18:19.122 --> 00:18:21.925
  • Civil war bass went with him.
  • 00:18:21.925 --> 00:18:24.494
  • He was probably helping george and the other
  • 00:18:24.494 --> 00:18:27.397
  • Confederates, which had to be awful.
  • 00:18:27.397 --> 00:18:29.799
  • Can you imagine aiding the side that was
  • 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:32.502
  • Fighting to keep you enslaved.
  • 00:18:32.502 --> 00:18:35.371
  • Eventually, bass escaped into indian territory
  • 00:18:35.371 --> 00:18:38.675
  • Here in oklahoma. bass built relationships with
  • 00:18:38.675 --> 00:18:42.545
  • The creek and seminole native tribes.
  • 00:18:42.545 --> 00:18:45.448
  • He even learned to speak their languages.
  • 00:18:45.448 --> 00:18:51.154
  • [speaking native language]
  • 00:18:51.721 --> 00:19:05.201
  • Fast forward a bit.
  • 00:19:05.668 --> 00:19:06.669
  • The good guys win the civil war.
  • 00:19:06.669 --> 00:19:08.304
  • Sorry, jesse james.
  • 00:19:08.304 --> 00:19:09.505
  • The 13th amendment passes, slavery is abolished, and
  • 00:19:09.505 --> 00:19:12.342
  • Bass is a free man, and so he does what every
  • 00:19:12.342 --> 00:19:15.278
  • Other free man wants to do.
  • 00:19:15.278 --> 00:19:16.913
  • He gets married and has 11 children.
  • 00:19:16.913 --> 00:19:19.649
  • He also gets a killer job.
  • 00:19:19.649 --> 00:19:22.885
  • Literally, a man named james fagan recruited
  • 00:19:22.885 --> 00:19:25.555
  • Bass to be a fellow u.s. marshal.
  • 00:19:25.555 --> 00:19:28.691
  • Now, this was a huge job at the time.
  • 00:19:28.691 --> 00:19:31.027
  • These guys were bringing law and order
  • 00:19:31.027 --> 00:19:32.862
  • To the wild west.
  • 00:19:32.862 --> 00:19:34.330
  • They were hunting down the bad guys and girls
  • 00:19:34.330 --> 00:19:36.933
  • Who were robbing banks and shooting sheriffs,
  • 00:19:36.933 --> 00:19:39.335
  • And bass was the perfect candidate.
  • 00:19:39.335 --> 00:19:42.939
  • - you've heard of dog, the bounty hunter,
  • 00:19:42.939 --> 00:19:45.141
  • But how about bass the bounty hunter?
  • 00:19:45.141 --> 00:19:52.181
  • - he was six foot two,
  • 00:19:52.682 --> 00:19:54.050
  • A great marksman.
  • 00:19:54.050 --> 00:19:55.485
  • He knew the land and spoke several native languages.
  • 00:19:55.485 --> 00:19:58.855
  • When bass reeves took the job,
  • 00:19:58.855 --> 00:20:00.556
  • He became the first black deputy u.s. marshal
  • 00:20:00.556 --> 00:20:03.726
  • West of the mississippi.
  • 00:20:03.726 --> 00:20:05.395
  • So bass returned to indian territory,
  • 00:20:05.395 --> 00:20:07.830
  • Aka, present day oklahoma, where he arrested
  • 00:20:07.830 --> 00:20:10.833
  • More than 3000 criminals.
  • 00:20:10.833 --> 00:20:13.269
  • I'm going to repeat that in case you missed it.
  • 00:20:13.269 --> 00:20:15.371
  • 3000 criminals.
  • 00:20:15.371 --> 00:20:17.807
  • Bass was also a master of disguise,
  • 00:20:17.807 --> 00:20:20.677
  • And he used this to catch the bad guys.
  • 00:20:20.677 --> 00:20:23.946
  • One time, he walked nearly 30 miles dressed
  • 00:20:23.946 --> 00:20:26.816
  • As a beggar in order to trick two criminals into
  • 00:20:26.816 --> 00:20:30.053
  • Inviting him into their home.
  • 00:20:30.053 --> 00:20:33.990
  • - bass reeves...
  • 00:20:33.990 --> 00:20:36.959
  • Master of disguise.
  • 00:20:36.959 --> 00:20:38.594
  • - what was the secret to his success?
  • 00:20:38.594 --> 00:20:40.930
  • Well, i think it was his dedication.
  • 00:20:40.930 --> 00:20:43.032
  • While billy the kid and jesse james were
  • 00:20:43.032 --> 00:20:45.335
  • Dedicated to greed and chaos,
  • 00:20:45.335 --> 00:20:48.137
  • Bass reeves was relentless,
  • 00:20:48.137 --> 00:20:51.074
  • Utterly dedicated to law and order.
  • 00:20:51.074 --> 00:20:53.543
  • Toward the end of his career,
  • 00:20:53.543 --> 00:20:54.744
  • Bass reeves was met with the greatest
  • 00:20:54.744 --> 00:20:56.446
  • Challenge of his life.
  • 00:20:56.446 --> 00:20:58.381
  • A young woman was murdered and the u.s.
  • 00:20:58.381 --> 00:21:00.249
  • Marshals were sent to go capture the killer.
  • 00:21:00.249 --> 00:21:03.453
  • When bass reeves heard the name of the killer,
  • 00:21:03.453 --> 00:21:05.355
  • He knew that there was no one else who could take
  • 00:21:05.355 --> 00:21:07.957
  • Case. the name of the killer...
  • 00:21:07.957 --> 00:21:10.426
  • Benjamin reeves.
  • 00:21:10.426 --> 00:21:12.595
  • That's right.
  • 00:21:12.595 --> 00:21:13.730
  • Bass reeves volunteered for the mission to
  • 00:21:13.730 --> 00:21:15.531
  • Capture his own son.
  • 00:21:15.531 --> 00:21:18.835
  • - the law is the law.
  • 00:21:18.835 --> 00:21:20.970
  • - oh, and you've heard of the lone ranger, right?
  • 00:21:20.970 --> 00:21:23.206
  • Well, fun fact, bass reeves was most likely
  • 00:21:23.206 --> 00:21:26.376
  • The inspiration behind this legendary,
  • 00:21:26.376 --> 00:21:29.011
  • Albeit more boring character who lit up
  • 00:21:29.011 --> 00:21:31.347
  • The silver screen.
  • 00:21:31.347 --> 00:21:33.049
  • [western music]
  • 00:21:33.049 --> 00:21:36.052
  • - hi ho silver away!
  • 00:21:36.052 --> 00:21:40.757
  • - really?
  • 00:21:40.757 --> 00:21:43.159
  • - speaking of the silver screen,
  • 00:21:43.159 --> 00:21:44.694
  • The western was the most popular film genre
  • 00:21:44.694 --> 00:21:47.363
  • In hollywood for decades.
  • 00:21:47.363 --> 00:21:49.632
  • In the 1950s, hollywood produced more westerns
  • 00:21:49.632 --> 00:21:53.035
  • Than any other film genre combined.
  • 00:21:53.035 --> 00:21:56.472
  • I mean, what's more american than bringing
  • 00:21:56.472 --> 00:21:58.341
  • The bad guy to justice, winning the girl and
  • 00:21:58.341 --> 00:22:00.777
  • Riding off into the sunset?
  • 00:22:00.777 --> 00:22:02.845
  • That's where i'll leave you with a quote from
  • 00:22:02.845 --> 00:22:04.447
  • Clint eastwood's classic western.
  • 00:22:04.447 --> 00:22:07.383
  • - in this world, there are two kinds of people,
  • 00:22:07.383 --> 00:22:09.252
  • My friend, those with loaded guns,
  • 00:22:09.252 --> 00:22:12.355
  • And those who dig, you dig?
  • 00:22:12.355 --> 00:22:15.358
  • - oh, we dig, clint. we dig.
  • 00:22:15.358 --> 00:22:17.927
  • We'll see you next time.
  • 00:22:17.927 --> 00:22:17.927