Tue, Sep 8, 1970
A look at the black trappers and guides who helped make the American Westward expansion possible is presented in part one.
Thu, Oct 15, 1970
There were some 8000 black cowboys in the last century. (They made up 25 per cent of the cowboy population.) The lives of six of these rugged cattle drovers are dramatized as films re-create the long weeks of the cattle drives from Texas to points north.
Thu, Oct 22, 1970
"Buffalo Soldiers" are the men of the Tenth Cavalry, one of four companies of black soldiers assigned to clear the frontier for settlement. A dramatic re-creation of their 1867 engagement with Sioux and Cheyenne warriors near Fort Davis, Texas is the third episode of the series.
Thu, Oct 29, 1970
The last show in the series takes place in Nicodemus, Kansas, a community formed by ex-slaves in the years following the Civil War. Films reconstruct the migration of blacks who moved westward to carve homes out of desolate land.
