People in Newgate were interested in what happened in the West from the very beginning.  News reports were fine.  But people wanted more.  That is why the first popular late-night program “The Real West” was begun in 1836 when a television crew was sent to the Alamo in late February of that year.  It stayed in an adjacent dimension and allowed people to see what was happening without being in danger. 

During the battle on Sunday, March 6, different cameras were set up in different locations so that people could see the conflict where the action was hottest.  Even the execution of Davy Crockett was viewed as was the final battle and surrender of the Mexican forces led by Santa Anna.  

People viewed discoveries like the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848 and gold in Alaska in 1880 near what is now Juneau, Alaska.  The Mexican War, the Civil War, the Indian wars, and the range wars were viewed from Midnight until 4:00 AM everyday from 1836 to 1917 when Pershing withdrew from Mexico after chasing after Pancho Villa and failing to capture him.  But people did get the chance to see in May of 1916 Lietenant George Patton gun down Julio Cardenas and two of his men in a cantina firing his two ivory-handled six-guns.   

Viewers saw how arrogant Custer was when he fought against Indians that were better armed than he and his troops were.  They also saw the slaughter of defenseless Indians at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1890.   Newgaters saw both Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the masterminds of the Battle of Little Big Horn, during the battle and before they were both killed; Crazy Horse in 1877 and Sitting Bull in 1890 when both men were under arrest. 

Indians, soldiers, gunfighters, lawmen, whores, preachers, prospectors, mine owners, rail workers, Jay Gould, and all sorts of other people were seen on NWGT along with famous, infamous, and little known events every morning except Sundays.  Some days people would see cowboys on a cattle-drive to Kansas while on other days, they would see shootouts which weren’t as glorious as Hollywood portrayed them.  The Gunfight at the O. K. Corral didn’t take place there but happened in an alley with the Earps and Doc Holliday acting more like gunfighters than law enforcement agents and the Clantons almost like victims.  People even sided with Billy the Kid as he fought against those who wanted to destroy farmers and small ranchers that Billy and his regulators defended.  His murder brought mixed emotions.