The character of Custer and how it affected the outcome of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, in which he and his men were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors.
The impulsive heroics, the fatal miscalculations, and the vain ambitions of three colorful frontier heroes out to carve their marks into American folklore: Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Bennet Travis.
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.
As most history leans to the males, here at least the folklore heroines of the Old American West get their just rewards.They were not exactly prissy little fillies.
Stephen F. Austin formed the Texas Rangers in 1826 to protect Americans who had settled in the Northeast part of Mexico and this group later became the lawmen for the settlers in that area.
Filmed on location in Saskatchewan Canada, this episode tells the story of the North West Mounted Police who eventually became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It tells the story from their arrival in Western Canada until the end of the 19th Century. The program focuses on the initially positive relationship between the individual officers and the first nations people, and the deterioration of that relationship culminating in the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. It also depicts the arrival of the Midland Battalion of the Canadian Milita in Saskatchewan in 1885, and the Battle of Batoche.
Cheyenne, Apache, Comanche, Sioux, and Navajo: their courage, spirit, and fight for survival are the stuff of American legend. This special reveals remarkable firsthand accounts and rare photographs that tell the real stories behind the 19th century's greatest warrior nations and the forces that destroyed their way of life. A part of the series The Real West. Distributed by A&E Television Networks.