Tore Olson

white settlers arrive.

Yeah, it's so fascinating, right?

So some of these hotspots when it comes to violence, like Tombstone, for example, Deadwood, for example, I can promise you that the city leaders at that time in the 1870s, 80s and 90s, they hated the fact that these places were known for violence.

They were deeply ashamed of this violence.

There was nothing sensational or they had took no pride in it whatsoever.

They knew it was going to keep visitors away, you know, like this was going to scare people off.

It's only once time passes that, you know, this becomes covered in dust and safely placed behind glass that towns are able to sort of, you know, promote their violent history as a tourism attraction.

You know, now today, tons of people flock to Deadwood and Tombstone just to see the recreations of those shootouts.

That was not the case at the time.

I mean, you know, city leaders were deeply embarrassed by this.

And, you know, maybe the same will happen for more recent explosions of violence.

For example, like Los Angeles in the 1980s and 90s was a really violent place.

You know, crack cocaine epidemic, LAPDs.

You know, this was something that many Americans were deeply, you know, anxious and ashamed about as well.

It's not something not a feel good story.

Maybe 100 years from now, you'll get tours of, you know, of gunslingers in 1980s Los Angeles.

I mean, it's hard to imagine, but history and nostalgia has a way of permeating and, you know, rebranding the past into something very different than it was at the time.

the american west so i i think we're going nowhere we're going to only keep making movies what's your favorite american movie of american west movie good question you know i'm really more of a television guy because i like the long form of it i really like the hbo series deadwood uh which is you know about 20 years old at this point but uh that's a that's a that's the one i come back to all the time but really i play more video games than i watch movies nowadays

Butch Cassidy was mine.

Oh, I'm doing a new class at the moment that looks at U.S.