Оригінальна назва
The Real West
Випущено
03.09.1992
Жанр
Документальний
Статус
Завершено
Кількість сезонів
3
Кількість епізодів
66
This documentary series shows stories of how the real West was created and separates fact from fiction.
George Custer: Showdown at Little Big Horn
Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Bennet Travis were heroes of the frontier, whose colorful careers made them symbols of the American Spirit. The Battle of the Alamo examines the impulsive heroics, the fatal miscalculations, and the vain ambitions of three men out to carve their marks into American Folklore
A study of gunslingers, including Jesse James, John Wesley Hardin and Billy the Kid. Host: Kenny Rogers.
“The Dalton Gang,” good guys turned bad who went from being U.S. marshals to robbing banks and trains. Their banditry ended in 1892 in Coffeyville, Kan., where four gang members were killed during an attempt to rob two banks in one day.
The stagecoach and the pony express, and how they linked the East Coast to the West.
Biography of Geronimo, the legendary Chiricahua Apache leader who refused to let his people be placed on a reservation and fought the US Army and local Arizona residents for many years in the late 1800s. He even raided into Mexico, terrorizing the population and battling Mexican troops.
The wild women of the Old West weren't prissy little frontier fillies. They staked their claim to Western legend with a style all their own. Problem is, history leans to the male gunslingers and Indian fighters. In Wild Women, America's folklore heroines get their just rewards.
Stephen F. Austin formed the Texas Rangers in 1826 to protect Americans who had settled in the Northeast part of Mexico and this group later became the lawmen for the settlers in that area.
Famous cowboys. Host: Kenny Rogers.
A powerful medicine man guides his people to numerous victories over the United States Cavalry and develops the fighting tactics for his followers which bring about the defeat of Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Filmed on location in Saskatchewan Canada, this episode tells the story of the North West Mounted Police who eventually became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It tells the story from their arrival in Western Canada until the end of the 19th Century. The program focuses on the initially positive relationship between the individual officers and the first nations people, and the deterioration of that relationship culminating in the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. It also depicts the arrival of the Midland Battalion of the Canadian Milita in Saskatchewan in 1885.
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