About this season
This documentary series shows stories of how the real West was created and separates fact from fiction.
Episodes (21)
1. George Custer: Showdown at Little Big Horn
Aired 3 September 1992
George Custer: Showdown at Little Big Horn
2. Crazy Horse: The Last Warrior
Aired 10 September 1992
3. Trailblazers & Scouts
Aired 17 September 1992
4. The Battle of the Alamo
Aired 24 September 1992
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
5. Outlaws: The Ten Most Wanted
Aired 1 October 1992 • 60 min
A study of gunslingers, including Jesse James, John Wesley Hardin and Billy the Kid. Host: Kenny Rogers.
6. The U.S. Civil War Out West
Aired 8 October 1992
7. The Law From Behind the Tin Star
Aired 15 October 1992
8. The Dalton Gang
Aired 22 October 1992 • 60 min
“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.
9. The Mexican War
Aired 29 October 1992
10. Stagecoach and the Pony Express
Aired 5 November 1992 • 60 min
The stagecoach and the pony express, and how they linked the East Coast to the West.
11. Indian Weapons & the Warrior Societies
Aired 12 November 1992
12. Buffalo Bill & His Wild West Show
Aired 19 November 1992
13. Westward Ho! The Wagon Train
Aired 26 November 1992
14. Geronimo: The Last Renegade
Aired 3 December 1992
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.
15. The Coming of the Iron Horse
Aired 10 December 1992
16. Wild, Wild Women
Aired 17 December 1992 • 47 min
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.
17. Bloody Dodge City
Aired 24 December 1992
18. The Guns That Tamed the West
Aired 31 December 1992
19. The Trail of Tears
Aired 7 January 1993
20. The Pinkertons
Aired 14 January 1993
21. Easy Women: Prostitution in the Real West
Aired 21 January 1993