The Real West

George Custer: Showdown at Little Big Horn

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

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

“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.

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

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.

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.