The West - Season 1

The West - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes8
DatesSep 15, 1996 - Sep 22, 1996

Episodes

The People (To 1806)
Season 1Episode 182 min

The People (To 1806)

The West begins as the whole world to the people who live there. It becomes a New World when Europeans arrive, a world shaken by incompatible visions. And almost three centuries later, when Lewis and Clark venture west to find a Northwest Passage, this world becomes the testing-ground for a young nation's continent-spanning dream.

Sep 15, 1996
Empire Upon the Trails (1806-1848)
Season 1Episode 284 min

Empire Upon the Trails (1806-1848)

Americans head west along many pathways -- following the fur trade into the mountains, fighting for self-determination in Texas, seeking religious freedom in Utah or a better life along the Oregon Trail. But whatever direction they travel, they move closer with every step to a "Manifest Destiny" that will make the West their own.

Sep 16, 1996
The Speck of the Future (1848-1856)
Season 1Episode 385 min

The Speck of the Future (1848-1856)

The Gold Rush brings the whole world to the West, as 49ers from Asia, South America and the eastern states scramble for "a share of the rocks," littering the hills with mining towns and creating the West's first metropolis. But in the push to strike it rich, many are violently pushed aside.

Sep 17, 1996
Death Runs Riot (1856-1868)
Season 1Episode 484 min

Death Runs Riot (1856-1868)

Civil war comes early to the West. In "Bleeding Kansas," abolitionists battle for free soil. In Utah, federal troops march against Mormon polygamy. And along the Rio Grande, oppressed Mexican Americans rebel. The war between North and South unleashes brute savagery in the West, and leaves behind an army prepared for total war against the native peoples of the plains.

Sep 18, 1996
The Grandest Enterprise Under God (1868-1874)
Season 1Episode 584 min

The Grandest Enterprise Under God (1868-1874)

A triumph of the human spirit, the transcontinental railroad opens a new era in the West, carrying homesteaders onto the prairies, bringing cowboys up the cattle trail from Texas, helping give women the vote in Utah and sending buffalo hunters onto the plains, where they drive a symbol of the West -- and a way of life -- to the brink of extinction.

Sep 19, 1996
Fight No More Forever (1874-1877)
Season 1Episode 685 min

Fight No More Forever (1874-1877)

The federal government tightens its grip on the West, but three bold spirits remain defiant -- Sitting Bull, who prophesies his people's greatest victory but cannot prevent their ultimate defeat; Brigham Young, who must sacrifice a spiritual son to save his church; and Chief Joseph, who triumphs in defeat as an indomitable voice of conscience for the West.

Sep 20, 1996
The Geography of Hope (1877-1887)
Season 1Episode 785 min

The Geography of Hope (1877-1887)

Newcomers arrive by the millions, bringing a new spirit of conformity to the West. Indian children are taught to forsake their heritage, Mormons are told to abandon a tenet of their faith, and new laws deny Chinese and Mexican Americans a place in society. Yet the legend of the "Wild West" lives on, thanks to the greatest showman of the age.

Sep 21, 1996
One Sky Above Us (1887-1914)
Season 1Episode 8121 min

One Sky Above Us (1887-1914)

As settlers race to claim tribal lands, Native Americans take up the Ghost Dance, trusting in its power to restore a lost way of life until their hopes are crushed at Wounded Knee. The new century marks a new era in the West, an age of aqueducts and smelters. But the West remains what it has always been, a world waiting for a dream.

Sep 22, 1996

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