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The Wild West Uncovered.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Mining camps.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (57 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Terranoa, [date of publication not identified]
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Hollywood has forged our vision of the Wild West. But what do we really know about the reality of those days? Who were the settlers and what were their work conditions and their social life like? How did Virginia city-Nevada become the most productive mining camp in the world with over 15,000 settlers in 1863? Historians and archaeologists join this exploration to turn clichés upside down and unravel a cosmopolite environment where miners, entrepreneurs, saloon owners, prostitutes and gamblers all struggled to make a better life for themselves.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed September 17, 2021).
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI.
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