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Wild West Tech

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Country
United States

How it feels

A documentary series examines the tools and machines that people used in the American Wild West. Historians explain how technologies like guns, trains, and telegraphs worked and why they mattered.

educationalinformativehistoricalreverentdocumentary-stylemoderate-pacedcuriousnostalgic

What happens

Wild West Tech is an American television program that aired on the History Channel in the United States from 2003 to 2005. The show was originally hosted by Keith Carradine (2003–04); his half-brother, David Carradine, took over hosting duties for season 2 onward. The show illustrates a variety of technologies used in the Wild West, and features interviews with numerous Western historians, as well as recreating versions of important events in Western history. The series was created by Dolores Gavin and supervising producer Louis Tarantino. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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