Title from container. "Saddle up for a rousing look at the Wild West"-- Container. Railroads: tracks across America: Features: America's railroad : the glory years.
Contents:
American history of the Wild West (11 hrs., 6 min.) -- Outlaws & gunslingers (3 hrs., 5 min.) -- Railroads: tracks across America (12 hrs., 36 min.) American history of the Wild West: Disc 1: Old west cowboys -- Wild Bill Hickok -- Wyatt Earp. Disc 2: Gunfighters of the old west -- Great indian wars -- Geronimo. Outlaws & gunslingers: program 1. Origins of the gunslinger -- program 2. Jesse James and the Southern Guerillas -- program 3. Billy the Kid and the lone outlaws -- program 4. Wild Bill Hickok and the lawmen -- program 5. Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Disc 2. Disc 1. Opening a new frontier. A great railroad at work -- Desert empire -- The big train -- New horizons -- Troop train -- The passenger train -- This is my railroad -- At this moment -- Big trains rolling -- Mainline USA -- Beef rings the bell -- Safe roads -- 3rd Ave El -- Operation fast freight -- The modern coal burning steam locomotive -- Flight of the century -- Disc 2. The steam locomotive -- Railroads and westward expansion: 1845-1865 -- The nickel plate story -- End of an era -- The California Zephyr -- Return of the General -- The freight train -- Railroad man -- The railroad story -- Son of the pioneer -- Rolling the freight -- Snow on the run -- The power behind the nation -- Clear track ahead! -- A railroad at work -- Last of the giants -- Progress on the rails -- Wheels of steel -- Opening a new frontier.
Summary:
American history of the Wild West: Twelve documentary set showcasing the wild and wooly past of the American wild west. Outlaws & gunslingers: This is the story of the West as it has never been told before, myth and legend stripped away and the truth revealed by 17 of the nation's top Western authorities. Learn the truth about Billy the Kid, Jesse James, the Sundance Kid, and many more. Railroads: tracks across America :Thirty-six rail industry, War Dept., and film industry-produced short films chronicle the development of the railroad industry in the U.S. from the first transcontinental line to modern diesel engines.
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