In 1848, a sawmill worker named James Marshall reached down into the stream bed of the American River in California -- and came up with the future of the West in the palm of his hand. He had discovered gold.
Aired: Sep 15, 1996To the Europeans, the West was a wilderness to be conquered, a wilderness fil...
Aired: Sep 16, 1996In the early 1800's, no one knew who would control the seemingly infinite spa...
Aired: Sep 17, 1996In 1848, a sawmill worker named James Marshall reached down into the stream b...
Aired: Sep 18, 1996The West had always symbolized hope and new beginnings, but in the 1850s, as ...
5. The Grandest Enterprise Under God
Aired: Sep 19, 1996After the Civil War, the transcontinental railroad links East and West, and c...
Aired: Sep 20, 1996By 1877 only a few groups still resist America's westward push. The Lakota Si...
Aired: Sep 21, 1996The conquest of the West is nearly finished: In only 10 years, the native peo...
Aired: Sep 22, 1996As settlers race to claim tribal lands, Native Americans take up the Ghost Da...
Aired: Sep 23, 1996Changes mark the turn-of-the-century in the West; tiny mining towns are trans...
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