Michael Portillo's first stop aboard the Southwest Chief is Dodge City, Kansas, a famous frontier town of the Old West, where he visits the notorious Long Branch Saloon, scene of many shoot-outs.He finds the Dodge City Cowboy Band performing at the city depot and breaks bread with a descendant of a railroad land agent who sold thousands of acres of land to 19th-century European settlers.Near Lamar, Colorado, Michael visits the scene of a terrible massacre of American Indians, who found themselves in the way of white settlement of the Great Plains. |
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Title: | Dodge City to Lamar, Colorado | |
Air Date: | January 30, 2017 | |
Runtime: | 60 min | |
Genres: | Travel | |
ThinMan : Contains spoilers. Click to show. In a lot of ways this season reminded me of "Donnie Darko", but this is much more graphic...