- Lost LA
Wild West
Before Hollywood imagined the Wild West, Los Angeles was a real frontier town.
Long before Hollywood imagined the Wild West, Los Angeles was a real frontier town of gunslingers, lynch mobs, and smoke-belching locomotives. This episode examines L.A.'s efforts to reckon with its violent past by examining hanging trees, remnants of vigilant justice; the massacre of eighteen Chinese immigrants that took place in 1871 near what is now Olvera Street; and railroad promotional campaigns that painted a picture of Los Angeles as a verdant paradise.
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Calle de los Negros: L.A.'s "Forgotten" Street (Article)
Murder in Old Los Angeles (Article)
Anti-Chinese Massacre of 1871 (Curriculum)
Creating Landmarks (Curriculum)
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Semi-Tropical L.A.: How the Sunny Southland Sold Itself (Clip)
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Hanging Trees: The Untold Story of Lynching in California (Clip)
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The Chinese Massacre: One of Los Angeles' Worst Atrocities (Clip)
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