<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=167462.msg7847782#msg7847782">Quote from: esclavage on 08-03-2013, 21:31:20</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">By the way, anyone have any recommendations for reading to get a sense of the period?  I realize we aren't going to obsess over the details and this is an alternate reality but I did want to avoid any major anarchronisms.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>The Good Old Days: They Were Terrible! (http://www.amazon.com/Good-Old-Days-They-Terrible/dp/0394709411)<br/>Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History (http://www.amazon.com/Legends-Cherished-Myths-American-History/dp/B000GG4Z2M)<br/><br/>Not reading material, but..<br/>The Real West (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103519/)<br/>Wild West Tech (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407461/)<br/>Thousand Pieces of Gold (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100774/) - a histo-drama which won accolades for both story and historical accuracy portraying the Chinese experience in 1880's California and Oregon<br/>Tombstone (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108358/) - it has Kurt Russel!  Also gives a pretty good feel for the period.<br/>Unforgiven (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/) - gritty and unsympathetic to the Hollywood "Western" tradition - very good!<br/>The Quick and the Dead (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114214/) - great villains and better heroes<br/><br/>Not at all historically accurate - but great steampunk west<br/>Wild Wild West (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120891/)<br/>Shanghai Noon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184894/)<br/>Shanghai Knights (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300471/)<br/>I've never seen Cowboys & Aliens (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409847/), but I've heard good things.<br/>