Saw this show on the American History Cannel yesterday

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America Fact or Fiction.
Indians didn't fight with a bow and arrow, they had repeating riffles bought from white men.
About 1/3 of cowboys were black or Mexican
I think it was something like .4% of the settlers were killed by Indians disease was by far the biggest killer of both

There were not gun fights where they drew on each other.
In the town's you had to turn in your guns to enter.
One year there were 35 gun deaths in the entire state of
Kansas but the city of Cinncinatti alone had 17.
Indians were great horsemen from centuries of riding, horses are not native to America.
There weren't saloons where they had prostitutes and poker tables. The prostitutes worked independently and gaming was done in gaming parlors.
That's just a few things all of this was a Hollywood invention.

[Karadeniz]

1. I'll look for it!

[doc03]

4. They did one on Las Vegas and myths around

it.
They say there are hundreds of dead workers in the concrete of Hover Dam. Not true, they had to pour the concrete a few inches at a time and nobody got buried.


They did another one on WWII, the Nazies didn't have this great mechanized army, the Germans had several hundred thousand horse soldiers. The reason they used Blizkreag was like shock and awe they didn't have the equipment for a sustained invation. The Germans had problems producing war equipment because they used slave labor that didn't support the cause.

[BigmanPigman]

5. That sounds like Hitler and Putin both used the

same strategy and both failed (blitz the enemy and expect a quick win).

[Siwsan]

2. The Lakota and Cheyenne had much more advanced weapons at Little Bighorn

One of a number of reasons why Custer and the 7th Calvary met their fate.

[lpbk2713]

3. Aces and eights.

Wild Bill Hickock was shot from behind at a poker table at a Deadwood saloon.

[cilla4progress]

6. I'm not sure that's true of Native Americans -

that they had equivalent firepower. Esp. not at the beginning.

From my copious reading.

Esp. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and A People's History of the US.