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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