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00:00 (wind howling)
00:02 - Few eras have burned as brightly or as briefly
00:05 as America's Wild West.
00:07 - It's really difficult to separate
00:12 the myth from the reality.
00:14 - The mythology of the West left out a lot of the people
00:17 who were actually living in the American West.
00:20 - Ultimately, the American West is far more different,
00:23 far more diverse, far more interesting.
00:26 - It was a time of violence and conquest.
00:30 - We should want to learn about its grittiness
00:34 and its complexities.
00:36 - You can feel nature at its finest
00:38 and also at its most brutal.
00:40 - A place where fortunes were made and lost.
00:44 - The awesome sense of adventure.
00:47 - The true stories of the West were almost lost.
00:50 - A lot of people say they'd never seen a black cowboy.
00:53 Well, we've been there, we've been doing it.
00:56 (crowd cheering)
00:58 - I never really learned about the Hispanic,
01:00 Mexican aspect of the story.
01:01 - Asian American history is American history.
01:04 - What we're trying to do is edition by edition.
01:06 This is the history book.
01:08 What you have there is factual,
01:09 but did you know about these other facts?
01:12 - The real Wild West was one of the most influential
01:16 and fascinating periods in American history.
01:19 This is the real Wild West.
01:23 (wind whooshing)
01:26 (silence)
01:28 (silence)
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01:33 (silence)
01:35 [BLANK_AUDIO]