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- Examines the biggest tools used in the West, such as weaponry and mining equipment.
- Some of the worst disasters in Ameerican history were caused human arrogance or stupidity and frequently both. This program explains the causes of: the Scofield mine explosion, the Goliad tornado catastrophe, the Sultana riverboat explosion, the Cascade Canyon train wreck, the Galvaston Hurricane devastation, the Virginia City Fire, and the San Francisco earthquake.
- Shows the execution technology used at the time, from hanging to electrocution, analyzing how they worked and what could go wrong.
- Continues the "Freak Show Tech" episode, showing how technology could turn deformed and handicapped people into entertainment, creating the hideously famous freak shows.
- Explores the life of some of the most famous gang of the West, showing their lives and the technology that helped them commit their crimes.
- Examines the technology used during the gold rush, namely the evolving of mining tools, as pumps, drills, elevators or cables
- Depicts the life and shows the technology used by the law enforcers in the Wild West.
- Saloons were the social place for men in the west providing liquor, gambling, music, sex, and other entertainment. Saloons often started as tents with a wood slab across a couple of barrels for a bar. As towns became established the saloons moved into permanent structures with all types of enticements to drawn in the customers. A bar in Portland, Oregon had a 684 foot bar but also trap doors to aid in shanghaiing men to be sailors. It also featured a female band with an electric barrier around it. Fights were common and every weapon and tool available was used in them. Saloons were decorated with pictures of horses and especially nude women. In one case a picture was fitted with balloons that could be inflated to make parts of the woman move. Kalidoscopes and early forms of jukeboxes were available in the later years. Gambling including card and table games plus bets on anything. Boxing starting initially with bare-knuckle boxing was a major and bloody form of entertainment. Many types of alcohol were served and one change was the addition of cold beer first via ice houses and then mechanical chilling systems. Saloons disappeared as more women moved into the west and pushed for a more civilized life style.
- Explores the great achievements in engineering that eased the path to the west, like roads, tunnels or bridges.
- Demonstrates how technology helped create tales and legends on the West.
- Shows the impact of the Civil War in the West, explaining how the characteristics of the terrain challenged the armies and how they adapted to the situation.
- Studies the technology behind the famous 1836 siege of the Alamo, showing both the tools and the tactics used by both sides.
- Shows how technology could turn deformed and handicapped people into entertainment, creating the hideously famous freak shows.
- Examines the tricks and techniques used by the Wild West pistoleers.
- This episode outlines the technological aspects of various ways in which death came to early settlers in the Old West.
- Tracks the most famous fugitives and the trackers and lawmen who followed them.
- Shows how technology found its way in the of the most famous and violent cities if the west.
- Six-Shooter Tech. Host hand-off from Keith Carradine to half-brother David Carradine. Evolution of the six shooter, including the Navy Colt, the Walker Colt, Remington Army, and the Peacemaker.
- Takes a look at some of the cutting edge gadgets in the West, from syringes to mouse traps, from lie detectors to condoms.
- The show covers aspects of the prostitution business in the wild west. It starts with the lack of women in the west relative to the number of men after the 1849 gold strike. Prostitutes worked at different levels starting at the top with brothels, saloon women, crib workers, and finally the street walkers at the bottom level. The poor working conditions of the women are covered along with the filthy state of their clients. Their strategic placement in red light districts along with how the red light name was derived from the rail workers red signal lanterns hanging outside the women's businesses. Perceptions of beauty or more importantly the lack of beauty standards of the day are covered. Treatments of the day for STDs are described along with the limited means to prevent them. Methods of birth control, abortion, and drug use are mentioned. The importance of prostitution as a key component of the economy of the times is stressed along with being one of the few livelihoods available to poor unmarried women of the west.
- Details about gamblers, gambling games, and methods of cheating in the west are described from the early days to its evolution toward the end of the 19th century. Gambling was an addition practiced by almost everyone in the west.
- Shows the technology used in some the most famed crimes perpetrated at the time, including the weapons that played the central role in each of them.