Wild West | Lost LA | Season 2, Episode 2 | KCET

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Published 2017-10-17

Long before Hollywood imagined the Wild West, Los Angeles was a real frontier town of gunslingers, lynch mobs, and smoke-belching locomotives. This episode examines L.A.'s efforts to reckon with its violent past by examining hanging trees, remnants of vigilant justice; the massacre of eighteen Chinese immigrants that took place in 1871 near what is now Olvera Street; and railroad promotional campaigns that painted a picture of Los Angeles as a verdant paradise.

00:00 - 01:02 Introduction
01:02 - 04:40 Creating the Image of Los Angeles
04:40 - 09:34 Palms, Citrus, and Selling the Future
09:34 - 17:05 Lynchings and Hanging Trees
17:05 - 25:17 The Chinese Massacre
25:17 - 25:31 Conclusion
25:31-26:01 Credits

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All Comments (21)

@metalgenius4110 2 years ago

This series, I always go back to rewatch every Episode cuz there’s so much information I forget , gotta start taking notes 😅
@lindawoody8501 3 years ago

I went to high school in a LAUSD school in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was never taught anything about the mistreatment and vigilante killings of Chinese people in Los Angeles. Sad that this was not taught to high school students at that time.
@frankn.5439 3 years ago

The presiding judge for the Chinese massacre trial was also one of the founders of UCLA. his name was judge Whitley and he released all of the men tried for this. His statue still standing in the campus of UCLA.
@thomasandersen9981 4 years ago

The fan palms with fat trunks are native and are found in deep slot canyons in the deserts of the Mojave and sonoran. Maybe not along the costal zones.
@luisfernandogiovannetti5153 5 years ago

I only arrive here because I was thinking how L.A looked at the times of Red dead redemption 2
@jeannemoore6610 9 months ago

My mom as a little girl watched a public hanging in the 1920s in Lindsay, California.
@raymondalverez5999 1 year ago

Great project My family heritage takes me way back to the "Chumas-Tong-va " people of Southern California. If someone with a similar background please contact me. Respectfully
@BlackSwan912 6 years ago

Too many thoughts roiling my brain after this. We never grow up. Today's version is based on the same principles: anger fear possession self-righteousness... the list is long. And in the end, none of it matters. We live we hurt we die.
@willacairns2593 3 months ago

From the East here, I had no idea palm trees 🌴 were not native to Southern California 😮
@jtm726 1 year ago

When emotions are high, things will happen that cannot be undone.
@user-xt3gh6du9r 11 months ago

I believe people need to see the horror of history, so they won’t repeat it.
@darrellsadler2848 6 years ago

I lived out here in the West for nearly 3 years and I have embraced the territory as my new home. i do appreciate living out here.
@williamhiles7404 1 year ago

Ummm......The Missions are hundreds of years old, especially De Alcala & San Gabriel. So are a lot of other things. LedHed Steven 🎶 🎸 🎹 🎸 🎶
@charlesgates2908 4 years ago

Picking oranges sucks. Did it once outside of Orlando 1985. THORNS.
@ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717 3 years ago

@ 16:06 That guy looks so much like Jacob Arenza, Pastor @ Our Saviors Church Where I Attended 2001-2004. Louisiana.
@clarkewi 2 years ago

Manifest Destiny.
@jacobeksor6088 4 years ago

where are the native indian live now?
@famousbowl9926 4 years ago

16:00 dude..... your erasing history.... WTFFFF??
@stenbak88 3 years ago

Not everything is about race Jesus Christ
@beforeyourimmigrants8471 3 years ago

Boy they go out of their way to not say the early settlers were black.