The Real Red Dead Redemption

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🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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October 5th, 1871. In what some call the wildest town in the Wild West, bad blood has been building for a long time. Wild Bill Hickok, the sheriff of Abilene, Kansas, is facing down Phil Coe, a saloon owner with a history of antagonizing the law. Then, the guns come out. This kind of shootout isn’t uncommon in the Old West, but it’s a lot more complicated than good guys versus bad guys. And to understand it on a deeper level, you just have to play a video game. Red Dead Redemption is a wildly popular gaming franchise, filled with train robberies, cattle rustling, and gunfights. And today, we take a close look at the real history behind the second game in this legendary series. Who are the inspirations behind its main characters? And how can understanding this video game help us to learn the true story of the Wild West? Special thanks to our interview guest, Tore Olsson, author of Red Dead’s History: A Video Game, An Obsession, and America’s Violent Past. To stay updated: historythisweekpodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All the big names are here.
0:02.0	Oh, who is that?
0:03.2	I think she was in the movie about that really big shark.
0:06.0	No, not her.
0:07.0	The florist.
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0:15.0	so you could bring your vision to life.
0:17.0	That's how you business differently.
0:19.0	Into its QuickBooks.
0:20.0	The History Channel Original Podcast
0:25.0	History this week, October 5, 1871.
0:30.0	I'm Sally Helm.
0:34.0	It's raining in Abilene, Kansas, a town people call
0:38.0	in Abilene, Kansas, a town people call one of the wildest in the wild west.
0:45.7	Every year thousands of cowboys pass through Abiline,
0:49.9	drinking, fighting, generally causing trouble.
0:54.2	And today the cowboys are in an especially hot-headed mood.
1:00.2	For one thing, there was supposed to be a county fair today, which would have been a fun way to blow off steam, but it's cancelled because of the rain.
1:09.0	There's also been tension in town, centered on a saloon the Bullshead Tavern. It's went by a
1:17.5	man named Phil Coe. Coe had what he thought was a great idea for promoting the business, a massive painting on the side of the building of a sexually aroused bull.
1:30.0	People in Abilene were outraged, they complained.
1:34.0	The sheriff, Wild Bill Hickok, tried to get Koh to cover the painting.
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