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Narrator: From the
ashes of the Civil War,
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a new breed of American emerges...
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determined to grab a piece
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of the nation's untamed frontier.
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Life was tough certainly
after the Civil War.
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And you had this vast
continent that was unexplored.
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And I think that fostered a
big migration to the West.
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(horse whinnies)
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Narrator: Over the course of 30 years,
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more than 430 million acres of land
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will be settled.
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But as the US
government pushes the nation west,
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former Confederates
hell-bent on taking back
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what they lost become outlaws...
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We intend to rob this here bank.
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- Who's the cashier?
- (gunshot)
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(horse whinnies)
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Narrator: ...threatening
to reignite the Civil War.
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In that day, you had to be
somewhat of a bad guy to survive.
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- (grunts)
- (gunshot)
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They were all tough and
nobody lived very long.
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Narrator: On the plains, war breaks out
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as tribes of warriors band together
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to protect their way of life.
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We deploy Custer and
1,200 men to track down
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whatever remains of Crazy
Horse and Sitting Bull's war party.
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If necessary, wipe them out.
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Narrator: This is the story
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of an age of violence like no other,
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a time when blood is
shed and battles fought
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by ordinary men who become legends...
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as they fight to
determine the fate of the country.
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Kiefer Sutherland: The
West shaped this country in ways
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that people either don't
acknowledge or have taken for granted
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or have simply forgotten.
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The West was true freedom.
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It was such a defining characteristic
of America.
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Narrator: This is "The American West."
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(gunshots)
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You go to hell.
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- You first.
- (gunshot)
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Narrator: The story of
the West begins at the end
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of the Civil War...
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where a young man named Jesse James
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is a soldier in a fringe military group
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known as Quantrill's Raiders.
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Mark Lee Gardner: Quantrill's
Raiders were guerilla fighters
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fighting for the South.
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They didn't necessarily
fight in traditional ways,
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and the way they fought could often
be very savage, very violent,
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and their targets could be civilians
as well as military.
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(horses whinny)
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(gunshot)
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(horses approaching)
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We got to go! We got to go!
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(gunshot)
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- (men shouting)
- (gunshots)
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There they go! Come on!
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(gunshots)
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(grunts)
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(gunshots continue)
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Get him!
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- (gunshot)
- (screams)
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- Can you run?
- No. (groans)
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(gunshot)
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(groaning)
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Narrator: In the spring of 1865,
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Jesse James is shot and captured
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by the Union Army.
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- (squishing)
- (groaning)
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(labored breathing)
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Now, say it.
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I solemnly swear...
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That I will bear the true allegiance
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of the United States.
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Say it.
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(screams)
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I will bear true
allegiance to the United States.
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And discourage...
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Narrator: Jesse James is forced
to pledge allegiance
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to the Union.
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Before he's released, the
Confederacy surrenders
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and after four years of bloody fighting,
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the Civil War comes to an end.
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After surviving a near fatal wound,
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Jesse James returns home to Missouri
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only to find death and
destruction all around.
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After the Civil War, the
South was hellacious.
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It had been ruined.
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And there was a great deal of resentment
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of northern
authority, of federal authority.
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There were a lot of people
who were mentally unbalanced
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by that war, by the brutality of it.
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Narrator: In the
border state of Missouri,
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the fighting has been especially brutal.
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David Eisenbach: Missouri
is one of the states
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that stuck with the
Union during the Civil War,
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but had large sectors of the population
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that wanted to go with the
South in the first place.
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So you had
Missourians fighting Missourians.
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It's in this incredibly volatile,
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literally brother against brother world
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that we get Jesse James.
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Narrator: Jesse soon
discovers that the war
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has not only torn apart his homeland,
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it's left his family with nothing.
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You look good, Frank.
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You look like shit.
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(laughs)
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I bet you gave them Union boys
hell, though, didn't you?
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It's just real nice to be home.
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Mom, I promise you,
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we're gonna get back on our feet.
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Me and Frank will figure out something.
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Gardner: Jesse and his brother Frank
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grew up in rural Missouri.
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Their father had gone
off to the gold fields
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during the Gold Rush and had died there.
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Jesse's mother, Zerelda
James, was a single parent,
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and I think that
created a very, very strong bond
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between her and her children.
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Narrator: Still reeling
from his time in battle,
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Jesse knows he has to find a
way to provide for his family.
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So he comes up with a plan.
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He forms a gang...
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and begins stealing.
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Sutherland: When you think of
Jesse James and those families,
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they have been stripped
of everything, they felt,
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after the Civil War and
they were gonna come
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and take what they
thought was owed to them.
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- Jesse: Come here, come here.
- Let's go.
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Here, take this.
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Go, go, go!
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Narrator: But the Union
Army quickly cracks down.
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(men shouting)
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Jesse.
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Cover that up.
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How you doing?
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What's in the crates?
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Food,
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various sundries.
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Got some sweet corn.
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- You boys hungry?
- Want some water.
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- We don't take orders from northern...
- Jesse: Frank!
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We got water.
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Fresh out of the creek.
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Tastes like shit.
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(pours water)
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Yeah, well, I guess we're used to it.
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Search the house. Take it all.
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Soldier: Yes, sir.
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Narrator: Fed up
with the North's presence,
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Jesse James is determined to fight back.
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(grunts)
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Eric Foner: Jesse James
could not adjust to peacetime.
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He was strongly opposed to
what was going on in the South
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and in fact viewed the army after the
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end of the war as being oppressive.
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Narrator: As attacks
from Confederates like Jesse
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escalate around the South,
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news travels over 1,000
miles to the east
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to the nation's capital.
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These just came in.
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You're dismissed.
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Narrator: The man who has
to deal with the growing unrest
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in the South is the same man
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who recently claimed
victory over the Confederacy...
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commanding general of the US Army
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Ulysses S. Grant.
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(men shouting)
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Narrator: When the Civil War began,
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Grant was considered
by many to be a failure,
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a drunk with no future in the military.
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But after a series of Union generals
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were unable to secure
victory for the North,
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Abraham Lincoln promoted
Grant to lead the US Army,
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and he rose to the task.
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John McCain: General Grant is
one of the true military geniuses.
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He saw the objective and he
knew what needed to be done.
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Narrator: With tensions
rising in the former Confederacy,
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Grant is forced to deal with
the South once again.
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H.W. Brands: When Grant
took control of the army,
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he had to deal with
leftover matters from the Civil War.
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Grant understood that
there was a feeling in the South
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that this defeat was
something that still might be resisted.
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And Grant had to attend to that.
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Narrator: Grant knows he can't
let rebels like Jesse James
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reignite the war.
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So he sends more US
troops south to maintain order
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and institutes strict martial law.
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Just over a year since the
end of the Civil War,
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it's North versus South again.
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Narrator: With former
Confederate soldiers like Jesse James
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lashing out against
northern authority in the South...
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(gunshot)
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General Ulysses S.
Grant sends armed troops
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to enforce order.
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Brands: During the
immediate aftermath of the Civil War,
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military government martial
law was imposed
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and Union soldiers were in occupation
of much of the South.
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Southerners generally resisted this.
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It was, from their
perspective, a continuation of the Civil War
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in which northerners imposed their will,
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imposed their ways on the South.
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Narrator: But the
increased military presence
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only makes things worse.
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Jesse James and other
ex-Confederates like him
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begin rioting.
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(men shouting)
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Narrator: With the Civil War
on the verge of starting up again,
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Grant knows a new strategy is
needed to heal the nation.
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So he and the US government
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look to a plan laid out by
the man who led the country
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during the Civil War... Abraham Lincoln.
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Lincoln knew that the
key to healing the country
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would be to give all
Americans the promise
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of a new start in the West.
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Redford: The value of
going into uncharted territory,
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there's a chance for
enterprise and development
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and a chance for
people to grow and to succeed
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in ways they couldn't in
the overdeveloped East.
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And also, I think, just the excitement
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and the challenge of
uncharted territory...
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that's a little bit of the American way.
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Narrator: From the Missouri River
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to the coast of California,
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the frontier is nearly
500 million square miles
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of wide-open land.
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Danny Glover: You have
the Pacific Ocean on one end,
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and you have the Atlantic
Ocean on the other end,
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and all the vast land in between that.
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It's the whole idea of
looking for opportunity,
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looking for another life.
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Narrator: The challenge is figuring out
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how to get people to the
West as quickly as possible.
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And Grant knows the answer.
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The same way he was able to
rapidly move Union troops
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during the Civil War.
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Man: Whoa, hold up on that sleeper.
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Get to work.
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Narrator: The railroads.
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Man: Hold up on that...
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Narrator: To promote construction,
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the government makes
the railroad companies
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an unprecedented offer...
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millions of acres of free land.
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For every mile of track that
a railroad would build,
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Congress would
provide the company with land
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on either side of the track.
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The land grants that Congress provides
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really is the
sweetheart deal of the century.
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Narrator: 175 million acres
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are given to the railroad companies...
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more land than the
entire state of Texas.
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The railroads then take the
land they got for free
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and sell it to the settlers...
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using a massive advertising campaign
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that promotes the West as
an uninhabited paradise.
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(train whistle blows)
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People were lured by this fantastic
sense of opportunity.
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You can be a poor
immigrant and all of a sudden
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there's an opportunity that you can
get 50 acres and start a life.
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That's like winning the
lottery back then.
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I mean, it was amazing.
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Narrator: But as Americans
begin to head west by the thousands...
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they're pushing into
land that's already occupied
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by a people determined to defend it.
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Narrator: As railroads expand west,
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hopeful new settlers push into territory
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that's been occupied for
thousands of years.
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At the end of the last Ice Age,
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nomadic hunters migrated
into the Americas
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across a land bridge that
once connected Siberia to Alaska.
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By 1865,
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300,000 Native
Americans are living in the West.
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The most numerous and
powerful people on the plains
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are the Lakota Sioux.
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But now their
homelands are being invaded.
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For the Lakota people, 1865
is a major turning point.
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With the railroads coming west,
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there is literally and figuratively
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a freight train coming right at them.
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Narrator: Standing in the
path of the invasion
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is a fearless young warrior.
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His name is Crazy Horse.
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Andrew Isenberg: Crazy Horse
was a very talented military leader
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who was the chief lieutenant
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of the Sioux in the
northern Great Plains.
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Narrator: The land
is sacred to the Lakota
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and Crazy Horse feels it's
his duty to defend it.
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Redford: Native Americans,
when they saw the railroad,
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they knew that there was now a vehicle
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to invade them with and
it was protected by steel.
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And it was fast.
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Narrator: In 1866, Crazy
Horse takes part
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in a bloody campaign
throughout the Wyoming territory.
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Sioux in the northern Great Plains
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are fighting against the
settlers who are moving into that area.
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And they're winning.
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Narrator: In the span of six months,
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dozens of settlers are killed
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and movement through the
territory is restricted.
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News of the violence
makes its way to Washington, DC...
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(tapping)
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where it's received by the
man overseeing troops in the West,
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famed Civil War general
William Tecumseh Sherman.
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I just received word from
the Dakota territories.
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Another six men have
been killed in a raid.
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Narrator: General Grant knows
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he can't let chaos on the frontier
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threaten the government's
plan of unifying the country,
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so he orders Sherman
to use military force.
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(horse whinnies)
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Narrator: In late 1866,
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nearly 1,000 soldiers pour
into Sioux territory.
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Crazy Horse knows it's up to him
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to defend his land and his people
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against an enemy with
superior firepower.
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But he's confident he'll prevail,
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thanks to a powerful
vision he had in his youth.
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Karl Jacoby: Crazy Horse,
as a young man, had a vision.
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(thunder rumbles)
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(cawing)
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And in this vision he sees
that whenever he's in battle,
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he's very safe from the enemy and
the enemy can never hurt him.
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And in essence he could be protected
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from anything that the
enemy might do to him.
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Narrator: Emboldened by his vision,
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Crazy Horse sets in
motion a daring plan.
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Jacoby: Several Lakota are
set to decoy the US Army,
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and one of these people is Crazy Horse.
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It's obviously a very
risky position to be in
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because you're putting
yourself very close to the US Army.
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Narrator: Crazy Horse lures the soldiers
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away from the protection of their forts
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into an open territory.
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(man shouting)
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Narrator: Once he has them in position,
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Crazy Horse begins his assault.
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Man: Ready!
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Narrator: He charges alone...
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Man: Aim!
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Narrator: directly
into their line of fire.
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Man: Fire at will!
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(gunshots)
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Narrator: It's a tactic
known as riding the brave line.
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And it exposes the
soldiers' greatest weakness.
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Man #2: Reload!
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(whooping)
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(all whooping)
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(soldiers grunting, screaming)
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(whooping)
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Narrator: On December 21, 1866,
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Crazy Horse claims one of
his greatest victories...
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killing nearly 100 US soldiers...
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in what becomes known
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as the Battle of a Hundred Slain.
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Now, in addition to trying to
contain the southern rebellion,
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Grant must deal with an Indian war
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that's beginning to rage out West,
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threatening the future of the nation.
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Narrator: After Crazy Horse and his men
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kill nearly 100 US
soldiers in a single battle,
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news travels back to Washington.
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Incompetence.
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These savages, they don't
fight the way we do.
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Narrator: Commanding general
Ulysses S. Grant
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is not only facing uprisings
in the South,
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but a new war in the West.
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Grant realizes the only
way to defeat the Indians
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is to send his best
commander from the Civil War...
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a man stationed 2,000
miles away in Texas
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who's famous for both his victories
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and his unconventional commanding style.
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His name is George Armstrong Custer.
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Anne Collier: George
Armstrong Custer was very flamboyant.
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He had flowing blond hair.
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Some say he curled it himself.
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He wore a signature
costume, if you will,
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that he called a uniform.
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He had a red handkerchief, shiny boots,
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and a broad-rimmed hat.
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And he just showed
himself to be superior to others.
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Where did you acquire that insignia
on your uniform, soldier?
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West Point, sir. Fourth in my class.
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Fourth in your class?
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Gentlemen, we have a
celebrity in our midst.
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Do you know what position I graduated?
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Last.
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And yet here I stand commanding you.
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Why is there a button
missing from your coat?
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You're a disgrace
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to that insignia.
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You are a disgrace to my unit.
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And you are a disgrace to
every man who ever wore that uniform.
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One month laundry duty.
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Make it the end of the year.
401
00:29:27,072 --> 00:29:31,141
Narrator: Though Custer is not
the army's most beloved leader,
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he is respected for the killer instincts
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he showed during the Civil War.
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00:29:35,513 --> 00:29:37,279
(cannonball whistling)
405
00:29:39,817 --> 00:29:41,384
Cover their left flank!
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Narrator: It was his daring charge
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that contributed to
Robert E. Lee's surrender.
408
00:29:47,858 --> 00:29:49,925
Lieutenant, why are you falling back?
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You breach their
front lines and you push.
410
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Burt Reynolds: A lot
of people laughed at him,
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but not in battle.
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He was a hell of a soldier.
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Tremendous courage.
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The thing that
scared people half to death
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was being assigned to him
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'cause you were gonna be in
the middle of everything.
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(men shouting)
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Narrator: But since the Civil War ended,
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Custer has been relegated
to overseeing border patrol
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at a remote post.
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Custer was sent into exile.
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He brooded over this, of course.
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And he knew that he
needed to get back into action.
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Sir.
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00:31:08,234 --> 00:31:10,363
Narrator: Grant gives
him the opportunity
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he's been waiting for.
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Hutton: Custer got
command of the 7th Cavalry,
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00:31:18,810 --> 00:31:22,245
which was going to
be the crack elite unit
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for Indian fighting in the West.
430
00:31:27,919 --> 00:31:30,401
Narrator: George
Custer finally has his chance
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to step back into the limelight.
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And it's an assignment that
will change the course
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of American history.
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00:31:43,242 --> 00:31:45,076
(crickets chirping)
435
00:31:45,178 --> 00:31:48,046
Narrator: In the years
following the Civil War,
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00:31:48,181 --> 00:31:50,881
former Confederate soldier Jesse James
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00:31:51,016 --> 00:31:53,250
has been leading an
uprising in Missouri.
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Jesse: All right, boys, I'll
tell you what's going to happen.
439
00:31:55,888 --> 00:31:58,121
Me, Charlie, and Frank will head inside.
440
00:32:03,128 --> 00:32:06,963
Get around that counter, easy money.
441
00:32:12,103 --> 00:32:14,738
Narrator: Until now,
Jesse's crimes have been small.
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But as the North's postwar domination
of the South continues...
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Jesse is starting to think bigger.
444
00:32:29,687 --> 00:32:34,390
He decides that the best way to
express his hatred for the North
445
00:32:34,492 --> 00:32:36,558
is to go after their wealth.
446
00:32:40,963 --> 00:32:44,298
In the first 80 years
of America's existence,
447
00:32:44,401 --> 00:32:47,167
there was not a
single armed bank robbery.
448
00:32:48,705 --> 00:32:52,573
So at the time, banks
have minimal security.
449
00:32:52,675 --> 00:32:54,542
And even in the South,
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they hold mostly northern money.
451
00:32:59,180 --> 00:33:02,773
Rob a bank and you're stealing
northern wealth.
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Sutherland: Jesse
James wanted the money,
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but he had a real
statement he was trying to make
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that was as much political as
it was about robbing banks.
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00:33:17,465 --> 00:33:19,765
(people chatting)
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00:34:01,674 --> 00:34:03,974
Go.
457
00:34:11,349 --> 00:34:13,483
- Everything in your vault.
- (people screaming)
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00:34:13,618 --> 00:34:14,416
Open the vault.
459
00:34:14,552 --> 00:34:16,586
- Move.
- (gasps)
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00:34:16,688 --> 00:34:19,889
- Open the vault.
- Jesse: Hold on, hold on.
461
00:34:25,562 --> 00:34:28,463
In the corner now.
462
00:34:32,636 --> 00:34:34,503
I know you.
463
00:34:36,439 --> 00:34:37,506
Where'd you fight?
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- I didn't.
- You did.
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00:34:40,209 --> 00:34:42,175
You fought for the Union, didn't you?
466
00:34:42,311 --> 00:34:44,177
No.
467
00:34:44,313 --> 00:34:45,753
Let's open the vault, be on our way.
468
00:34:48,818 --> 00:34:51,386
- You fought at Richmond.
- No, I didn't.
469
00:34:51,387 --> 00:34:53,253
- Don't you shake your head at me.
- Jesse.
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You're the man who shot Bill Anderson.
471
00:35:01,195 --> 00:35:03,162
Gardner: The Civil War made Jesse James.
472
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He killed men, he saw men killed.
473
00:35:06,100 --> 00:35:10,302
Seeing death every day
changes the way you look at life.
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00:35:10,639 --> 00:35:13,705
Jesse mistook the teller
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for the murderer of his
leader during the Civil War.
476
00:35:17,444 --> 00:35:19,578
I found you, you son of a bitch.
477
00:35:22,182 --> 00:35:24,616
(shouts)
478
00:35:24,752 --> 00:35:26,192
We still need him to open the vault.
479
00:35:30,957 --> 00:35:32,723
Bill Anderson was my friend.
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00:35:32,825 --> 00:35:33,591
(gunshot)
481
00:35:33,660 --> 00:35:37,127
God damn it, Jesse. On the floor!
482
00:35:41,267 --> 00:35:42,833
Frank: Come on, Jesse, we got to go.
483
00:35:42,936 --> 00:35:44,378
Come on, now! Come on.
484
00:35:45,905 --> 00:35:47,637
Gardner: That revolver shot
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is somewhat of a release.
486
00:35:51,710 --> 00:35:53,743
When Jesse fires that gun,
487
00:35:53,879 --> 00:35:58,081
there's a welled-up bitterness
that's been boiling for years.
488
00:35:58,183 --> 00:36:01,685
He still has the memories he witnessed
personally during the war.
489
00:36:01,820 --> 00:36:03,300
Lots of his friends have been killed.
490
00:36:05,122 --> 00:36:06,622
Jesse refused to forget.
491
00:36:06,724 --> 00:36:09,524
A lot of his makeup was revenge.
492
00:36:11,028 --> 00:36:12,426
Come on, Jesse. We got to go.
493
00:36:12,540 --> 00:36:14,196
Jesse, come on. Come on, now.
494
00:36:14,364 --> 00:36:16,065
Get, boys, get.
495
00:36:29,613 --> 00:36:30,912
(clicks tongue) Come on.
496
00:36:32,749 --> 00:36:35,249
Come on.
497
00:36:46,698 --> 00:36:49,232
(hammer clicks, gunshot)
498
00:36:49,334 --> 00:36:51,568
Narrator: Jesse
James has just pulled off
499
00:36:51,670 --> 00:36:54,137
one of the first bank
robberies in America,
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leaving one man dead and
earning the ex-Confederate
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00:36:58,010 --> 00:37:00,007
his first victory against the North.
502
00:37:00,133 --> 00:37:02,244
A lot of the guys who became outlaws,
503
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Jesse James and so forth, they were
504
00:37:03,943 --> 00:37:05,438
all part of the Confederate Army.
505
00:37:05,549 --> 00:37:08,050
And when the Union won that war,
506
00:37:08,152 --> 00:37:09,819
robbing banks was their way
507
00:37:09,921 --> 00:37:13,422
of continuing the
fight of the Confederacy.
508
00:37:13,524 --> 00:37:16,191
Narrator: The crime makes
headlines across the state,
509
00:37:16,327 --> 00:37:19,861
turning Jesse into a wanted criminal.
510
00:37:19,997 --> 00:37:21,796
All right, it's on you, Frank.
511
00:37:21,898 --> 00:37:23,531
There it is. (laughs)
512
00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:27,301
It's a good day to be
Frank James, you know.
513
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Sutherland: Jesse James certainly
had a very specific idea.
514
00:37:31,207 --> 00:37:32,887
He was going to take
the money that he felt
515
00:37:32,910 --> 00:37:34,511
was taken from him during the Civil War.
516
00:37:34,544 --> 00:37:37,011
The press got wind of that.
517
00:37:37,146 --> 00:37:39,546
And once they started reading
their own stuff,
518
00:37:39,682 --> 00:37:42,049
they were, "Yeah, I'm
right. You know, I was questioning
519
00:37:42,184 --> 00:37:44,584
whether or not I should have robbed
that bank, but now I know I'm right."
520
00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:46,286
(laughs)
521
00:37:46,421 --> 00:37:48,421
Narrator: With his reputation growing,
522
00:37:48,524 --> 00:37:51,358
Jesse James is fanning the
flames of rebellion in the South.
523
00:37:55,563 --> 00:37:57,630
Over 400 miles away,
524
00:37:57,766 --> 00:38:00,967
the US government is
dealing with an even greater problem
525
00:38:01,102 --> 00:38:02,301
than southern uprisings...
526
00:38:06,041 --> 00:38:09,174
as Indian attacks by
warriors like Crazy Horse
527
00:38:09,276 --> 00:38:11,643
are slowing down western progress.
528
00:38:16,650 --> 00:38:19,384
But General Ulysses S.
Grant has an answer...
529
00:38:19,519 --> 00:38:23,555
Civil War hero George Armstrong Custer.
530
00:38:27,359 --> 00:38:31,528
Grant was quite happy with
the performance of Custer.
531
00:38:31,630 --> 00:38:37,168
Custer was one of the great
heroes during the Civil War.
532
00:38:37,269 --> 00:38:39,469
He was also willing to
do whatever was necessary
533
00:38:39,638 --> 00:38:42,285
to deal with the Indian issue right now.
534
00:38:44,176 --> 00:38:45,942
Narrator: For
Custer, it's the opportunity
535
00:38:46,078 --> 00:38:49,579
he's been waiting for to
step back into the spotlight.
536
00:38:56,088 --> 00:38:59,089
For months, Custer has
been hunting bands of Indians
537
00:38:59,191 --> 00:39:00,923
across the southern plains...
538
00:39:01,058 --> 00:39:03,525
Halt!
539
00:39:03,627 --> 00:39:06,061
But hasn't been able to track them down.
540
00:39:12,737 --> 00:39:15,420
Gardner: I think Custer
had the same ambitions
541
00:39:15,536 --> 00:39:18,388
that any long-term military
officer had.
542
00:39:18,389 --> 00:39:20,428
That was to advance in rank.
543
00:39:20,542 --> 00:39:24,411
Advance in rank and to
win laurels, win glory.
544
00:39:24,513 --> 00:39:27,215
That was hard to do in
the post-Civil War West.
545
00:39:27,316 --> 00:39:30,484
I mean, you weren't
meeting a foe that was lined up
546
00:39:30,586 --> 00:39:32,353
with 10,000 men on the field of battle.
547
00:39:32,488 --> 00:39:35,188
You were meeting a very elusive foe.
548
00:39:35,290 --> 00:39:39,292
So I think Custer was frustrated often
549
00:39:39,394 --> 00:39:43,130
with what he wanted to do,
and I think he wanted glory.
550
00:39:48,637 --> 00:39:52,204
Narrator: Finally,
Custer catches a break.
551
00:40:08,388 --> 00:40:12,290
His regiment discovers a
band of Cheyenne Indians
552
00:40:12,425 --> 00:40:14,325
camped near the Washita River
553
00:40:14,494 --> 00:40:17,361
suspected of
attacking settlers and troops.
554
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:21,565
Get the men ready.
555
00:40:21,668 --> 00:40:22,633
Half an hour.
556
00:40:22,669 --> 00:40:26,670
I want to hit them with
everything we've got.
557
00:40:31,076 --> 00:40:32,709
You have your orders.
558
00:40:32,812 --> 00:40:34,411
Yes, sir.
559
00:40:43,421 --> 00:40:47,156
Narrator: Desperate for
another chance at greatness,
560
00:40:47,292 --> 00:40:49,926
Custer prepares a surprise attack.
561
00:40:54,632 --> 00:40:57,533
Jacoby: Custer is quite
consciously, I think, very aggressive
562
00:40:57,635 --> 00:41:00,035
in his war against Indians
563
00:41:00,137 --> 00:41:02,408
because he's really
trying to reclaim the glory
564
00:41:02,518 --> 00:41:04,436
that he experienced during the Civil War
565
00:41:04,565 --> 00:41:06,942
when he was this American hero.
566
00:41:17,753 --> 00:41:21,681
Narrator: It's only been three
years since the Civil War ended.
567
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,128
But now with Custer
riding into a battle for glory...
568
00:41:32,001 --> 00:41:34,901
and Jesse James inciting
a rebellion in the South...
569
00:41:37,305 --> 00:41:41,774
America is on the brink of
fighting a two-front war.
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