"Wild West Chronicles"

Sometimes you need a legend to uncover the truth behind other legends.

That is the arresting premise of Wild West Chronicles, an ingenious amalgamation of drama and documentary set to kick off a 15-episode run at 5:30 pm ET/4:30 pm CT Sunday, April 11, on INSP.

The series cleverly imagines a series of assignments for Bat Masterson in the late 1880s, after the Old West lawman had reinvented himself as a New York-based newspaper reporter and columnist. Each week, Masterson (played by Jack Elliott) returns to the West to gather material — and conduct interviews — for in-depth, up-close profiles of such notables as Wild Bill Hickok, Bass Reeves, Annie Oakley, Butch Cassidy, Stagecoach Mary and Emmett Dalton. From these first-hand accounts, he aims to gather facts that often are stranger, and wilder, than fiction.

To get the story behind these stories, we reached out to two of the creative talents behind Wild West Chronicles: Craig Miller, vice president of original unscripted programming and development for INSP; and Gary Tarpinian of MorningStar Entertainment, who served as executive producer of the series:

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