It is largely a series of slaughters and land-grabs that reminds us the West was won often through ugly, bloody measures taken against those who were already there.
This is an earnest accounting of the West that didn’t make it into most John Wayne movies. Black cowboys, fearless madams, conquistadors, the Trail of Tears, the depletion of the buffalo, Alta California. The new four-part Curiosity Stream docuseries The Real Wild West tries its own hand at this task, dutifully highlighting stories and figures that have traditionally received short shrift from Hollywood and other purveyors of pop culture. “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” The adage comes from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, made by John Ford, the undisputed master of a genre that plays with the disparity between American myth and reality like no other.
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