The Great Adventure — Season 1, Episode 4: Six Wagons to the Sea
Drama • 60 min • 1 season, 26 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
The attempt in 1894 by farmers from California's Central Valley to get their produce to market by wagon despite attempts by the Southern Pacific Railroad to foil their efforts and preserve their monopoly of transporting produce.
About The Great Adventure
The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van Heflin, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented a weekly one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important historical events in American History.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Hunley
- E2The Death of Sitting Bull
- E3The Massacre at Wounded Knee
- E5The Story of Nathan Hale
- E6Go Down, Moses
- E7The Great Diamond Mountain
- E8The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis
- E9The Outlaw and the Nun
- E10The Man Who Stole New York City
- E11A Boy at War
- E12Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the Man
- E13The Colonel from Connecticut