The Real West
Season 3
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Network: History
Season aired: 1994-01-13
Seasons
Overview
This documentary series shows stories of how the real West was created and separates fact from fiction.
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Episodes · 22
The Donner Party
Legends & Folklore of the Old West
Indian Agents
The Northern Frontier: Canadian West
The Johnson County War
The Mystic Navajo
Wild Bill Hickok
Famous Forts and Outposts
Steamboats West: Glory Days on the Big Muddy
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War
The Klondike Gold Rush
Headline Hunters of the Old West
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Filmed on location in Saskatchewan Canada, this episode tells the story of the North West Mounted Police who eventually became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It tells the story from their arrival in Western Canada until the end of the 19th Century. The program focuses on the initially positive relationship between the individual officers and the first nations people, and the deterioration of that relationship culminating in the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. It also depicts the arrival of the Midland Battalion of the Canadian Milita in Saskatchewan in 1885.
