Explores the hardships faced by American pioneers, both on the trail and in frontier towns, using a question and answer format.

Confronting the harsh environment, puzzling maladies, and limited technology of the early American West, frontier doctors practiced their trade variously with skill, bravado, innovation, and more than occasionally, a heaping dose of old-fashioned quackery. Learn about these fascinating men of medicine with this compelling documentary from the History Channel.

Follows the lives of the Macahans, a family living in the Old West.

"For a century Butch Cassidy has been the subject of legends about his life and death, spawning a small industry of mythmakers and a major Hollywood film. Charles Leerhsen sorts out fact from fiction to find the real Butch Cassidy, who is far more complicated and fascinating than legend has it"-- Provided by publisher.

After the sudden death of his wife, a struggling homesteader on the western frontier finds the strength to raise his daughter with the help of his parents.

Buck Wyatt, leading a wagon train of women on a 2,000 mile journey from Chicago to California, finds the women's determination, spirit, and strength more than equal to the challenges of frontier life when his fifteen male guides decide to desert.

1883. The widowed father of two on the frontier Dakotas, Eldon Quint moves through the world leaving as mild a footprint as possible. His twin brother Clayton Quint is known to most as Jack Foss, a violent outlaw whose visage is prominently displayed on handbills across the American west. When Eldon is mistaken for Clayton, his son Shane is killed in the crossfire. Wracked by grief, the quiet farmer has two aims: to bury his son next to his dead wife...

Shortly after Ethan Edwards returns from the Civil War Comanches take his neice captive after killing her family. Ethan then sets out to find her.

Presents an account of frontier life for women in the American West through brief biographies of fifteen famous individuals, including Calamity Jane, Belle Starr, Nellie Cashman, Mary Fields, and Annie Oakley.