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Death Runs Riot
(The West series)
VHS
84 minutes
F591 .D4271 1996
The West has always symbolized hope and new beginnings. But in the 1850s, as more American pioneers poured west, they brought with them the nation's oldest, most divisive issue - slavery. And the rough frontier would supply the sparks that would ignite the Civil War.
Indians would be dragged into "the white man's war," while the besieged Mormans would commit the worst massacre of innocent pioneers in American history. A brave Mexican-American rancher would declare his own republic in southern Texas and become "the Robin Hood of the Rio Grande." A young writer named Sam Clemens would escape the bloodshed of the East to find adventure and opportunity in Nevada's bustling silver camps, where he would transform himself into Mark Twain. And, as the bitter Civil War drew to a close, celebrated Union heroes such as George Armstrong Custer and William Tecumseh Sherman would use the tactics which had defeated the South against the Native Americans of the West.
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