Bill O'Reilly's Legends & Lies

The Real West

Longtime Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly serves as an executive producer of this adaptation of the "Legends & Lies" book series. The documentary series explores the stories behind events and the notable historical figures involved. Historical re-enactments and analysis from historians and other experts are used to bring viewers details about the topic discussed in each episode.

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10 Episodes

  • Jesse James: Bloody Politics
    E1
    Jesse James: Bloody PoliticsA profile of Jesse James.
  • Doc Holiday: Desperate Measures
    E2
    Doc Holiday: Desperate MeasuresA profile of John Henry "Doc" Holliday includes the gunfight at the O.K. corral.
  • James "Wild Bill" Hickok: Plains Justice
    E3
    James "Wild Bill" Hickok: Plains JusticeA profile of James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok features his reputation as a marksman and penchant for gambling.
  • Kit Carson: Duty Before Honor
    E4
    Kit Carson: Duty Before HonorA profile of Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson (1809-68) explores his reputation as a mountain man, wilderness guide and Army officer.
  • Davy Crockett: Capitol Hillbilly
    E5
    Davy Crockett: Capitol HillbillyA profile of Davy Crockett (1786-1836), a frontiersman, politician and folk hero, who died at the Battle of the Alamo.
  • Black Bart: Gentleman Bandit
    E6
    Black Bart: Gentleman BanditA profile of Black Bart, a notorious stagecoach robber in the Old West.
  • Billy the Kid: Escape Artist
    E7
    Billy the Kid: Escape ArtistA profile of Billy the Kid, a New York City native who became an outlaw in the Old West in the 1870s.
  • George Custer: A General's Reckoning
    E8
    George Custer: A General's ReckoningA profile of George Armstrong Custer, a Civil War commander in the Union Army, who later died at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876.
  • Bass Reeves: The Real Lone Ranger
    E9
    Bass Reeves: The Real Lone RangerA profile of Bass Reeves (1838-1910), a former slave who became a deputy U.S. marshal and is thought to be the inspiration for the Lone Ranger.
  • Butch Cassidy: The Last Man Standing
    E10
    Butch Cassidy: The Last Man StandingA profile of Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, a pair of notorious Old West outlaws, who were immortalized in the Oscar-nominated 1969 film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).

Cast of The Real West

  • Will CavittClarkson

 

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