S1 E1 | Inventing the City

Los Angeles, one of the largest cities in the United States and the world, has a unique story; home to indigenous tribes, just two hundred years ago Los Angeles was a small outpost of Mexico, after it took possession of California from Spain after the Mexican War of Independence; taken by the US in the Mexican- American war of 1848, Los Angeles remained a scrappy Cowtown until the discovery of oil in the 1890's.