Jagged edge takes its title from f. Scott fitzgerald who is the author probably most famously of the great gatsby and if you remember your gatsby from back in high school or college you will remember nick carowinds is from minnesota. He went off to war and this would have been world war i and when he came back he decided that he thought it would be sort of dull to move back to minnesota which he saw as the ragged edge of the universe and he decided to move to new york and he got nixed up and arrained 20s on long island with gatsby and all that cast of characters from his book. In the end when he sees what happens to many of these characters he begins to see the ultimate west where he came from as the warm center of the world and so that contrast is what i tried to draw out in my new book book, warm center to jagged edge. In the decades after the civil war the midwest was seen by many commentators as the pacesetter region, the place that is the most active the place where there were som
On holidays, too. Follow us on twitter, like us on facebook. And find our programs and schedule on our website, cspan. Org history. Next on American History tv, a panel of scholars discusses the life and legacy of novelist, journalist, photographer, and social activist jack london. In this twohour program, well see a selection of his photo journalism and learn how the author of the call of the wild has influenced generations of western writers. The bill lane center for the American West and Stanford University libraries cohosted this event. Thank you, bruce. Hello, my name is marc levin, and im an affiliated scholar with the Billing Center for the american center. A program today is called jack london, apostil of the American West. And is being cosponsors by bill lane center for American West and the Stanford University libraries. As bruce was describing, the Billings Center is dedicated to advancing scholarship and Public Education on the past, present, and future of Western North ame
know. wild bill hickok and jack mccaul were gambling one night. he was a drifter a loser. the guy s got a chip on his shoulder of some kind. . all in. fold. . what do you say? mccaul is just a punk looking for a way to start a fight with wild bill hickok. and that s precisely what
[ gunfire ] jack mccall is drunk. he s somebody looking for fast fame. mccall comes in and before hickok knows it takes his gun and shoots him in the back of the head. hickok, face down on the table and is dead. jack mccall is later convicted of murder and hanged for his crime. no motive is ever revealed. after hickok died with an ace in his hand, that hand become as powerful symbol in western literature and film that writers and film-makers use to signal the death of the hand. unable to outrun his reputation the gunslinger never gets the chance to face his killer. he s buried in the cemetery under the inscription wild bill