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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