Historian Answers Wild West Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

Historian Mark Lee Gardner joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Wild West era. Who was the most dangerous outlaw in the old west? What did folks use for toilet paper way back then? How accurate is the depiction of life in the old west in "Red Dead Redemption 2?" Old west historian Mark Lee Gardner covers these questions and plenty more on Wild West Support. 0:00 Yeeeehaaaw! 0:13 The most dangerous outlaw in the Old West 1:09 What is a 49er? 1:29 Which film did it better? 2:38 Music of the Wild West 2:54 “Hit it, Vance!” 4:18 Did the Old West have stricter guns laws than we have now? 5:09 Old West saloon drink menu 5:43 Hats of the Old West 6:58 When did the “Old West" officially end? 7:30 How many buffalo were there? 8:49 Annie are you Oakley? 9:36 Billy The Kid pics 11:27 Black cowboys: Yes 12:16 Branding cattle 13:19 Popularity of the 10 gauge shotgun 14:36 How accurate is Red Dead Redemption? 15:20 Old West literacy rates 16:42 TP of the Old West 17:47 An interesting aside about outhouses 18:14 Shootout etiquette 19:04 Old West cuisine 20:05 Mark’s fave gunslinger 20:42 What was there to do in a saloon? 21:47 Old West deep cuts 22:39 Saloon doors: why? 23:26 Toughest native tribes 24:24 How Custer took the L at Little Big Horn 25:58 Navajo blankets of the 1800s 27:02 When did the Old West start? 28:36 Play us out, fellas. Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey Director of Photography: Josh Bane Editor: Philip Anderson Expert: Mark Lee Gardner Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas Production Manager: Peter Brunette Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer Camera Operator: Freddie Ochoa Sound Mixer: Brad Dunn Production Assistant: Noelle Aguilar Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen Additional Editor: Jason Malizia Assistant Editor: Andy Morell Special Thanks: Vanc