Head-Smashed-In buffalo jump. Curiosity kills the Blackfoot boy. (900 B.C - A.D. 1800) --
Grisly expedition. Lewis and Clark's men challenge a grizzly to a foot race. (1805) --
Run, man! run! John Colter finds escaping naked and weaponless from the Blackfeet isn't easy. (1809) --
A brutal end. Master woodsman George Drouillard wagers it all on a stack of beaver plews. (1809) --
The trials of Marie Dorian. She survives a 2,000-mile starvation trek … then things grow worse. (1813) --
Unstoppable man. Hugh Glass drags his ravaged body 350 miles --
The toughest of men. Mountain man Jedediah Smith wrestles an angry grizzly. (1824) --
Who wants to be Chief? The Mandan coming-of-age ceremony involves skewers, skulls, and hatchets. (1830) --
Rabid at the rendezvous. A hydrophobic wolf savages a dozen mountain men. (1833) --
Enormous jaws. Osborne Russell finds that it pays to leave a wounded bear alone (1834) --
Cargo of death. A riverboat carries something far more lasting than trade goods. (1837) --
Wagon train woes. The Sager family's string of unfortunate events … never gets better. (1844) --
Cannibalism in the mountains. High Sierra blizzards force the Donner Party to commit unspeakable acts. (1846) --
Missionary massacre. The Whitmans pay dearly for a measles epidemic among the Cayuse. (1847) --
Don't make him angry. They don't call him "Liver Eater" for nothing. (1847) --
Abandoned in the wilderness. Winter in the Rockies finds Janette Riker alone --
except for the cougars and wolves. (1849) --
Fisticuffs with a Ute Chief! Nine-thousand head of sheep, a surly shepherd, and angry Indians mix it up. (1852) --
Massacre at Mountain Meadows. The Fancher emigrant party makes history --
but not California (1857) --
Reap what you sow. Jack Slade deals hard justice, but can he take it? (1858) --
Leave well enough alone. Texas Rangers steal Cynthia Ann Parker back from her Comanche husband and sons. (1860) --
Back from the dead. A grouse hunter proves he's one tough old bird --
but is the grizzly tougher? (1860) --
The long walk. Kit Carson lays waste to their homeland, then the Navajo are forced to walk 300 miles (1863) --
Against all odds. Young Robert McGee is clubbed, shot, scalped, and left for dead. (1864) --
Chivington's legacy. A white flag is ignored and a band of peaceful Cheyenne are no more. (1864) --
Fetterman's last mistake. Eighty cavalrymen are surrounded by thousands of Lakota Sioux warriors. (1866) --
Friends to the end. Oliver Loving's friendships endure far beyond the grave. (1867) --
Natural born killer. John Wesley Hardin develops a taste for violence. (1868) --
Grand Canyon hell ride. Provisions run low, spirits sink, and the rapids grow worse for Powell's expedition. (1869) --
Colorado cannibal. Alferd Packer emerges alone from the San Juans, well fed and loaded with cash. (1874) --
Aces and eights. Wild Bill Hickok ignores his inner voice … and is dealt a losing hand. (1876) --
Custer's comeuppance. Arrogance, disorganization, and bad decisions are the order of the day. (1876) --
No more forever. Chief Joseph leads his people 1,700 miles toward freedom --
and nearly makes it. (1877) --
Father agains son. U.S. Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves must hunt his own son for murder. (1880) --
Like a freight train. Philetus W. Norris learns that some grizzlies just won't die. (1880) --
Tombstone gundown. Thirty shots are fired in thirty seconds. And then the fight really begins. (1881) --
Stampede! It doesn't take much to set a herd moving --
getting them to stop is another story (1882) --
Mass hanging. Justice can be blind, angry, brutal … and quick. (1883) --
Stuart's stranglers. Fed up with rustlers, Granville Stuart and his fellow ranchers won't wait for the law. (1884) --
Frisco fusillade. A teenager with two pistols fends off eighty cowboys for thirty-three hours (1884) --
Winterkill. Never was a streak of bad weather more aptly named than the Great Die-Up. (1887) --
Helpless. How long does it take a pack of wolves to devour two living people? (1888) --
Bad end of the Bandit Queen. Belle Starr's habit of irritating others catches up with her one night on a dark road. (1889) --
Cattle Kate lynched. Ruthless land barons don't get that way by playing nice. (1889) --
High plains slaughter. Within a few decades, a species once millions strong gasps its last. (1890) --
Carnage at Wounded Knee. For Chief Big Foot's band of Lakota Sioux, an hour changes everything. (1890) --
Vetter's bitter end. One grizzly is bad, two is worse, three is … (1892) --
Deadline law. "Diamondfield" Jack must mount the gallows for someone else's crime. (1897) --
Steady, Teddy! The Rough Rider matches wits with a wild she-cat. (1901) --
Botched hanging. "Black Jack" Ketchum is set to swing, but it all goes wrong. (1901) --
Wronged detective. Tom Horn is guilty of killing … but not this time. (1903) --