WAY WEST DVD

Movie Description:
between 1845 and 1893, theAmericanWest was lost and won-wound with ribbonsof iro and wireand brought within the dominion of the US-while, along the waythe lives of hundreds of thousands of Native Americans were violently disrupted and all but destroyed. This merizing six-hour documentary seriesfrom acclaimed filmmaker Ric Burns, chronicles the final astonishing decades of the American frontier from the time of the Gold Rush until afterthe last gasp of the Indian wars at Wounded Knee.