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Kevin Costner's The West
Kevin Costner's The West

Kevin Costner's The West

—Exploring the multi-layered portrait that makes up the American frontier; from literal trailblazers to the law enforcers and battles for both land and freedom.
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Season 18 of 8 Episodes

  • Chief Little Turtle leads the Indian Nations of the Northwest Confederacy to a major victory over the fledgling U.S. Army; a new force under General "Mad" Anthony Wayne embarks on a counteroffensive, leading to a new era of westward expansion.

  • After building his reputation as a formidable hunter, John Colter chooses to stay out in the wilderness and enter the booming fur trade; when he repeatedly ignores warnings from the Blackfeet, he's taken captive and forced to make a run for his life.

  • Missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman seek to bring their way of life to the local Cayuse people; their struggle to adapt heightens fears and tensions both with the Cayuse, and each other, setting up a tragic encounter with historic consequences.

  • The abduction of Cynthia Ann Parker kicks off a series of confrontations; Cynthia Ann's rescue sees her violently removed from her new native family and dropped back into a hostile foreign culture, while pushing her son on a campaign of revenge.

  • In California, Mexican immigrant Joaquin Murrieta forms a gang of outlaws that spreads terror across the state; a posse of California Rangers, led by Harry Love, takes Murrieta down - but his legend as a hero to the downtrodden lives on to this day.

  • When Kansas becomes a battleground in the national debate over slavery, settlers on both sides of the issue pour into the territory to determine its future as a free or slave state in its eventual admission to the Union.

  • When Civil War veteran Col. Henry Carrington takes command of Fort Phil Kearny in Northern Wyoming, he never expects to face such a ferocious enemy as Red Cloud's band of Lakota Sioux.

  • In northern Wyoming's Powder River Valley, a group of ranchers band together to protect their rights to graze cattle; a powerful cabal of cattle barons smear the ranchers as common thieves and plot an invasion.
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Exploring the multi-layered portrait that makes up the American frontier; from literal trailblazers to the law enforcers and battles for both land and freedom.

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Kevin Costner, William West, Jeffrey Means, Blaine Harden, Edward O'Donnell, Peter Stark, Shane Doyle, Clay Jenkinson, Michael Punke, Doug Brinkley, H.W. Brands, Sam Gwynne, Shannon Smith, Yohuru Williams

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