The Real West Season 1, Episode 12: Buffalo Bill & His Wild West Show

George Custer: Showdown at Little Big Horn

George Custer: Showdown at Little Big Horn

Crazy Horse: The Last Warrior

Trailblazers & Scouts

The Battle of the Alamo

Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Bennet Travis were heroes of the frontier, whose colorful careers made them symbols of the American Spirit. The Battle of the Alamo examines the impulsive heroics, the fatal miscalculations, and the vain ambitions of three men out to carve their marks into American Folklore

Outlaws: The Ten Most Wanted

A study of gunslingers, including Jesse James, John Wesley Hardin and Billy the Kid. Host: Kenny Rogers.

60 min

The U.S. Civil War Out West

The Law From Behind the Tin Star

The Dalton Gang

“The Dalton Gang,” good guys turned bad who went from being U.S. marshals to robbing banks and trains. Their banditry ended in 1892 in Coffeyville, Kan., where four gang members were killed during an attempt to rob two banks in one day.

60 min

The Mexican War

Stagecoach and the Pony Express

The stagecoach and the pony express, and how they linked the East Coast to the West.

60 min

Indian Weapons & the Warrior Societies

Westward Ho! The Wagon Train

Geronimo: The Last Renegade

Biography of Geronimo, the legendary Chiricahua Apache leader who refused to let his people be placed on a reservation and fought the US Army and local Arizona residents for many years in the late 1800s. He even raided into Mexico, terrorizing the population and battling Mexican troops.

The Coming of the Iron Horse

Wild, Wild Women

The wild women of the Old West weren't prissy little frontier fillies. They staked their claim to Western legend with a style all their own. Problem is, history leans to the male gunslingers and Indian fighters. In Wild Women, America's folklore heroines get their just rewards.

47 min

Bloody Dodge City

The Guns That Tamed the West

The Trail of Tears

The Pinkertons

Easy Women: Prostitution in the Real West