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- Born in 1859, William Henry McCarty never knew his father. As a teenager, he followed his mother in a convoy of pioneers on their way west. Once in New Mexico, his mother died and the young man was left to fend for himself at the age of 15. He became a cowboy in Arizona and killed a man in self-defense. Convicted of murder, he escapes. From homicides to stories of cattle rustlers and bounty hunters, the whole mythology of the Wild West is embodied in Billy the Kid. Since King Vidor's "Billy the Kid" in 1930, the outlaw has fueled the imagination of some fifteen directors, the most memorable film being Sam Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" in 1973.
- Rich Hall looks at how the most quintessentially American film genre, the Western, came to be killed off.
- A short documentary, released as bonus material on the DVD from Stuart Baird's film "U.S. Marshals" (1998), the special presents the tradition, history and the function of the U.S. Marshals as law enforcement agents, covering many different areas.
- Al Chandler, a member of the Gros Ventre nation in Montana works in the economic mainstream while maintaining traditional ties by attending powwows.
- An old foe of Chance McKenzie from prison shows up and starts making everybody's life hell.
- Los Angeles steals its water supply, millions of Mexicans migrate north, and Hollywood begins to shape the West and the nation's image of it.
- The conquest of the West was nearly complete by the 1870s. In one remarkable decade, with Indians effectively confined to reservations, over four million new settlers arrived to stake their claim to the future.
- By the late 1880's, American settlers continue to claim tribal lands while the Dawes Act tries to break up the tribal structure of the Native American nations. The Native Americans take up the Ghost Dance putting their faith in religion until their hopes are crushed at the Massacre of Wounded Knee.