THE HISTORIANS #2 - How "Wild" was the Wild West? I Paul Andrew Hutton & Mark Lee Gardner

Welcome back to THE HISTORIANS — the series here on History Shorts where I sit down with two leading historians for an unscripted conversation about the questions that have shaped how we understand our past.

For episode two, I sat down with two of the foremost authorities on the American Wild West to ask one deceptively simple question:

How wild was the Wild West, really?

Paul Andrew Hutton is a Distinguished Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, a six-time winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award, and the author of...