Belle Starr was a robber and a horse thief. Annie Oakley could shoot a cigarette out of your mouth at 50 paces. Calamity Jane was as tough as beef jerky on a three-day ride. The wild women of the Old West weren't prissy little frontier fillies.

The legend of Zorro was inspired by the early California bandito, Joaquin Murrieta. A colorful and romantic desperado with Robin-Hood charisma, Murrieta defended the oppressed against intruders who stole their land and gold.

Profile of the fabled Western scout, frontiersman, gunfighter, and gambler. Was Hickok a hero or hooligan, lawman or outlaw? We follow the legend from his humble beginnings in Homer, Kansas, to the Gold Rush fields of Deadwood, South Dakota, to the fateful day in 1876, when he drew the infamous "dead man's hand.

At the dawn of the cowboy era, a mysterious disease threatens to derail the dreams of Texas cattlemen and their cowboys. One man vows to find a cure--and get fabulously rich at the same time. In a bold gamble, Joe McCoy builds a city in the middle of nowhere: Abilene--the first "cow town"--whose legacy would reshape the West.

Two cattle partners set off to blaze a trail to reach new markets. Only one returns. The epic adventure of Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving defines the spirit of the American cowboy and the brutal reality of the West in the wake of the Civil War.

The legendary saga of Oglala Chief Red Cloud--a fierce and proud leader in both war and peace.

Chronicle of the last Comanche leader to surrender his tribe to white authorities. Parker later became a cattle rancher and court judge.