Death Runs Riot (EP4)
Résumé de l'épisode 4
The West had always symbolized hope and new beginnings, but in the 1850s, as more American pioneers poured west to start over, they brought with them the nation's oldest, most divisive issue -- slavery. The rough frontier would supply the sparks that ignited the Civil War. No one was safe. Indians were dragged into the "white man's war," while a group of besieged Mormons committed a terrible massacre of innocent pioneers. A brave Mexican-American rancher declared his own republic in southern Texas and became the "Robin Hood of the Rio Grande." A young writer named Sam Clemens escaped the bloodshed to find adventure and opportunity in Nevada's bustling silver camps, where he became a journalist named Mark Twain. Then, as the bitter Civil War drew to a close, celebrated Union heroes like George Armstrong Custer and William Tecumseh Sherman used the tactics that they had employed to defeat the South against the Native Americans of the West.