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- Two sons of a stern minister - one reserved, one rebellious - grow up in rural 1920s Montana while devoted to fly fishing.
- In 1898 Cuba, five Buffalo Soldiers find a gold cache, desert and return to America where they help defend a black town from the KKK, all the while trying to avoid capture by lawmen and military authorities alike.
- The story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American Heavyweight boxing champion.
- A biographical film about the acclaimed American humourist and author.
- A man searches for the breeding ground of a near extinct bird - the Eskimo Curlew.
- Timothy Dalton travels to Alaska, Montana, Minnesota and the Canadian high arctic in search of wolves living in the wild.
- The West had always symbolized hope and new beginnings, but in the 1850s, as more American pioneers poured west to start over, they brought with them the nation's oldest, most divisive issue -- slavery.
- In the early 1800's, no one knew who would control the seemingly infinite spaces of the West.
- By the 1870s, only a few groups resisted the nation's push to conquer the West.
- Los Angeles steals its water supply, millions of Mexicans migrate north, and Hollywood begins to shape the West and the nation's image of it.
- In 1848, a sawmill worker named James Marshall reached down into the stream bed of the American River in California -- and came up with the future of the West in the palm of his hand. He had discovered gold.
- The conquest of the West was nearly complete by the 1870s. In one remarkable decade, with Indians effectively confined to reservations, over four million new settlers arrived to stake their claim to the future.
- After the Civil War reunited North and South, Americans set out with renewed energy and optimism to finally unite the nation, East and West.
- This series chronicles the saga of the American West, tracing the lives of a diverse cast of characters, from explorers, soldiers and Indian warriors to settlers, railroad builders and gaudy showmen, who share their stories in their own words, through diaries, letters and autobiographical accounts.
- In the Utah desert in 1869, a golden spike marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. On the 150th anniversary, Ed speaks with descendants and educators to learn about this triumph-and its human and environmental costs.
- The evidence, structure, history and potential threat of the Yellowstone super volcano are described.
- By the late 1880's, American settlers continue to claim tribal lands while the Dawes Act tries to break up the tribal structure of the Native American nations. The Native Americans take up the Ghost Dance putting their faith in religion until their hopes are crushed at the Massacre of Wounded Knee.