Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, and Butch and Sundance. Lakota, Comanche and Apache. Wars, gunfights and robberies. This show covers the toughest lawmen, the wildest outlaws, and the deadliest towns — all the people and events that shaped the American West.
491 episodes transcribedIn northern Colorado, a column of the 5th Cavalry becomes trapped near Milk Creek during an ambush by Ute warriors. Two days into the siege, a troop o...
A small detachment of the 9th Cavalry from Fort Bayard in southern New Mexico Territory tracks a band of Apache who were likely responsible for an att...
In 1867, Company K of the 9th Cavalry spends a long summer rebuilding Fort Lancaster on the road between El Paso and San Antonio. At the end of the ye...
David Crockett volunteers for the Texian army and is assigned to help protect an old Spanish mission called Mission San Antonio de Valero, better know...
David Crockett’s political career rises throughout the 1820s, but it begins to fall in the 1830s as he continually runs afoul of President Andrew Jack...
David Crockett becomes a skilled hunter at a young age in Tennessee before war returns to the young American nation. During the War of 1812, he joins...
As America’s war of independence drags on, Daniel Boone and the other settlers protect their towns from escalating attacks by the Shawnee. Boone becom...
During the American Revolutionary War, Daniel Boone helps blaze a trail to Kentucky called the Wilderness Road. He establishes settlements and leads a...
As Daniel Boone grows up in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, he earns a reputation as a skilled hunter and marksman. He learns of a hunter’s paradise...
In June of 1899, an outlaw gang robs a train outside of Wilcox, Wyoming. The gang is the Wild Bunch led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Pin...
In the late 1880s, James McParland joins the Denver office and quickly becomes superintendent. With McParland at the helm, Charlie Siringo receives as...
Charlie Siringo grows up driving cattle in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. In the early 1880s, Charlie retires from the cowboy life, writes a book ab...
After 20 years as a supervisor, James McParland yearns to get back into the field as a detective. He finds his chance in 1906 when the Pinkerton agenc...
As the violence intensifies in Pennsylvania, James McParland decides its time to bring the Molly Maguire case to a close before he ends up dead. In th...
In the early 1870s, tensions between Pennsylvania coal miners and mine owners reaches a fever pitch. Poor working conditions for little pay results in...
The race is finally over as both railroads make it to Promontory Summit. On May 10, 1869, the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific meet in a massive...
After surviving the chaos of the Hell on Wheels towns of Wyoming, the Union Pacific pushes into Utah. Once there, they call upon Mormon workers to hel...
After Thomas Durant lined his pockets for years, investors in the Union Pacific finally force a change in leadership. The pace of construction acceler...
As the Union Pacific begins construction across Nebraska, the Central Pacific faces an immediate obstacle: the Sierra Nevada Mountains. In order to by...
For decades in the early 1800s, engineers and merchants attempt to convince the United States to build a railroad that could link the east to the west...
