Explores through multi-layered portrait of American frontier from literal trailblazers to the law enforcers and battles | dHNfVzFUZDBZNDBZNEU
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00:00I'm Kevin Costner, and this is The West.
00:07Joaquin Marietta is one of many thousands of Mexican miners in Northern California,
00:13trying to make a go of it like everybody else.
00:15Some accounts suggest Joaquin was pushed off his land by American settlers.
00:20Forced to give up mining gold, Marietta turns to stealing it.
00:24One event in late 1852 cements his reputation as the most feared outlaw in Gold Rush, California.
00:33Joshua Bean eventually becomes the mayor of San Diego, and when he retires from that profession,
00:38he opens a saloon in a small town in Southern California.
00:41One evening, there's a brawl over a girl.
00:43In the aftermath of that, Bean is walking home when he's attacked by persons unknown and killed.
00:50Kevin Costner's The West.
00:54New series premieres Memorial Day, part of History Honors 250, only on the History Channel.