The Real West - Season 1

1. George Custer: Showdown at Little Big Horn

Aired: 9/3/1992

George Custer: Showdown at Little Big Horn

2. Crazy Horse: The Last Warrior

Aired: 9/10/1992

3. Trailblazers & Scouts

Aired: 9/17/1992

4. The Battle of the Alamo

Aired: 9/24/1992

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

5. Outlaws: The Ten Most Wanted

Aired: 10/1/1992

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

6. The U.S. Civil War Out West

Aired: 10/8/1992

7. The Law From Behind the Tin Star

Aired: 10/15/1992

8. The Dalton Gang

Aired: 10/22/1992

“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.

9. The Mexican War

Aired: 10/29/1992

10. Stagecoach and the Pony Express

Aired: 11/5/1992

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

11. Indian Weapons & the Warrior Societies

Aired: 11/12/1992

12. Buffalo Bill & His Wild West Show

Aired: 11/19/1992

13. Westward Ho! The Wagon Train

Aired: 11/26/1992

14. Geronimo: The Last Renegade

Aired: 12/3/1992

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.

15. The Coming of the Iron Horse

Aired: 12/10/1992

16. Wild, Wild Women

Aired: 12/17/1992

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.

17. Bloody Dodge City

Aired: 12/24/1992

18. The Guns That Tamed the West

Aired: 12/31/1992

19. The Trail of Tears

Aired: 1/7/1993

20. The Pinkertons

Aired: 1/14/1993

21. Easy Women: Prostitution in the Real West

Aired: 1/21/1993