How the Wild West was Won with Ray Mears - Season 1

First aired: 5/8/2016 3 episodes
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Episodes

Episode 1

1. Mountains

Aired: 5/8/2016

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.

Episode 2

2. Great Plains

Aired: 5/15/2016

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.

Episode 3

3. Deserts

Aired: 5/22/2016

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.