Hollywood's version of the Wild West is an idealised, romantic intrepretation of the opening up of the lands of the western United States. But it is pure fiction. So what was frontier life really like?

Using techniques which reveal the hidden and invisible developed for Drain the Oceans, we see the wreck of a 19th Century steamboat yeilding the stuff that made America; the Little Bighorn battleground shedding light on the true nature of General Custer's defeat; and a crumbling Californian mining town with the forgotten contribution of a major group of those who opened up the west. 

The real Wild West was a far more complex and diverse place than the fantasy promoted by the silver screen.