How the Wild West was Won with Ray Mears - Season 1
1 - Mountains
Air Date: May 8, 2016
How the landscapes of America's three great mountain ranges - the Appalachians, the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada - challenged the westward push of the early pioneers.
2 - Great Plains
Air Date: May 15, 2016
Ray Mears finds out how 500,000 square miles of flat, treeless grassland was the setting for Wild West stories of Indians, wagon trains, homesteaders and cattle drives.
3 - Deserts
Air Date: May 22, 2016
Ray Mears looks at how the landscapes of America's five great deserts, from the Great Basin desert to Arizona's Sonoran desert, challenged the westward push of the pioneers.