The West had always symbolized hope and new beginnings, but in the 1850s, as more American pioneers poured west to start over, they brought with them the nation's oldest, most divisive issue -- slavery.
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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