Tag: Betty Gilpin
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American Primeval: A Brutal Portrait of the Wild, Wild West
Primeval. Synonyms include pre-historic and primitive. The United States could be considered primal in 1857. America’s growing pains were reaching a boiling point in the Utah Territory. The splintering issue of slavery had been deferred by the Compromises of 1820 and 1850. The bloodshed in Kansas was still raw. Utah had been established as a…