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Jesse James: Bloody Politics

Episode number: 1

Overview: A profile of Jesse James.

Doc Holiday: Desperate Measures

Episode number: 2

Overview: A profile of John Henry "Doc" Holliday includes the gunfight at the O.K. corral.

James "Wild Bill" Hickok: Plains Justice

Episode number: 3

Overview: A profile of James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok features his reputation as a marksman and penchant for gambling.

Kit Carson: Duty Before Honor

Episode number: 4

Overview: A profile of Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson (1809-68) explores his reputation as a mountain man, wilderness guide and Army officer.

Davy Crockett: Capitol Hillbilly

Episode number: 5

Overview: A profile of Davy Crockett (1786-1836), a frontiersman, politician and folk hero, who died at the Battle of the Alamo.

Black Bart: Gentleman Bandit

Episode number: 6

Overview: A profile of Black Bart, a notorious stagecoach robber in the Old West.

Billy the Kid: Escape Artist

Episode number: 7

Overview: A 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

Episode number: 8

Overview: A 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

Episode number: 9

Overview: A 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

Episode number: 10

Overview: A 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).