Torrey Olson
History professor and author focusing on U.S. social and economic history; contributor on topics linking the Red Dead Redemption games to America's violent past and author of Red Dead's History.
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Mar 9, 2026 • 44min
How Wild Was the Wild West? | The Frontier
Torrey Olson, history professor and author of Red Dead’s History, links games and scholarship in a lively take on America’s frontier. He contrasts mythic shootouts with real forces like railroads, corporations, labor strife, Native dispossession and ecological warfare. Short, sharp conversations peel back nostalgia to reveal how economics, politics and technology shaped the so-called Wild West.
