The Wild West is born out of the desperation following the Civil War. Outlaws rampage and rob while lawmen become legends. It’s a time drenched in boozin’ gamblin’ and womanizing. However the famed Wild West looked a lot different than what we see in movies.

The new West is a land of unprecedented opportunity. In less than a century millions of prospectors rush to gold fields boomtowns appear overnight and a transcontinental railroad allows travelers to cross the country in only seven days. It is a century of ambition greed fame and fortune.

Manifest Destiny. The U.S. provokes a war with Mexico taking California and much of the Southwest. The United States is forged in wars and now stretches coast to coast.

Young historians guides and descendants tell the untold stories of the Wild West. From the rich history of the Native Americans who were there long before the “west was won” to the trickle of frontiersmen that becomes a flood of settlers seeking furs gold a free homestead and a new start.