October 17, 2017 27 min
Overview
Before Hollywood, Los Angeles was a real frontier town of gunslingers, lynch mobs, and locomotives. L.A. has been reckoning with that past by examining hanging trees, the massacre of eighteen Chinese immigrants in 1971 near what is now Olvera Street, and railroad promotional campaigns depicting Los Angeles as paradise.
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