
Historical and factual series celebrating pivotal moments in history.

The Southern Cheyenne migrate to Colorado; Chivington and the Sand Creek Massacre.

Forced by settlers to migrate, the Northern Cheyenne allied with the Sioux, but gold soon made peace difficult to maintain.

The almost surreal deterioration of Gold Rush boomtowns into abandoned shells of timber and sagebrush.

Points west of the Mississippi saw bloody battles during the Civil War.

Steamboats open transportation for Western settlers.

Indian agents, whether missionaries or political appointees, affect reservation life.

Gen. George Crook fights Indians then, in peacetime, promotes their cause.

In the 1860s, Kit Carson and the U.S. government forced 8,000 Navajo Indians to march to a New Mexico reservation.