The West

This documentary series begins with the story of European explorers converging on the Native American world, and spans the 1500s to 1806. To the Europeans, the West was a wilderness to be conquered, somewhere filled with boundless treasure, souls to be saved and new horizons to explore. With America's purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1804, a young country prepared for its own epic march across the terrain of the West. Part 1 of 9.