It’s important to desanitize the Hollywood fantasy of the Wild West and confront our own history. But this Netflix series is grim to the point of cruelty.

It all started with a snub from a youth football coach that sparked a hunger in a then 7-year-old from South Florida.

Jim Bridger, as played by Shea Whigham in Netflix's American Primeval, has a long history in the American West. Here's what ...