TV Show Details
Air Date:May 16th, 1993
Last Air Date:May 21st, 1995
Network:Discovery
Status:Ended
Genres:Documentary
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Discovery
How the West Was Lost on the Web:Official Website
How the West Was Lost (1993-1995)
Discovery
Scripted
StarringPeter Thomas
Plot
The history of 19th-century America is the story of struggles between settlers moving west and Native Americans trying to hold on to their ancestral territories. The clash between lifestyles and land rights forged a new land and unified an American culture, but in the process a venerable way of life was destroyed. Follow the Cherokee, Dakota, Lakota, and Nez Perc as they fight to keep their homelands.