Kevin Costner's the West

Season

2025

7.1

Explores through multi-layered portrait of American frontier from literal trailblazers to the law enforcers and battles for both land and freedom.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Fallen Timbers

After settlers encroach on Native lands, Miami Chief Little Turtle leads Northwest Confederacy to victory over US forces. Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne's counterattack defeats the Confederacy, enabling western expansion.

S1 • E2

Colter's Run

John Colter, famed hunter from Lewis and Clark's Expedition, joins the fur trade. Ignoring Blackfeet warnings about hunting sacred beaver on their land, he's captured and must run for his life.

S1 • E3

Episode #1.3

Missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman settle by the Columbia River to convert the Cayuse. Cultural clashes and a measles outbreak increase tensions, leading to a fateful confrontation.

S1 • E4

Comancheria

The abduction of nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker kicks off a series of increasingly deadly confrontations between her Comanche captors and the newly independent Texas.

S1 • E5

The Robin Hood of El Dorado

In Gold Rush California, Mexican immigrant Joaquin Murrieta forms a gang of outlaws that spreads terror across the newly formed state.

S1 • E6

Bleeding Kansas

When Kansas becomes a battleground in the national debate over slavery, settlers on both sides of the issue pour into the territory to determine its future.

S1 • E7

The Fetterman Fight

When Civil War veteran Col. Henry Carrington takes command of Fort Phil Kearny in Northern Wyoming, he never expects to face such a ferocious enemy as Red Cloud's band of Lakota Sioux.

S1 • E8

Johnson County Wars

In the fertile expanse of Northern Wyoming's Powder River Valley, a group of small-time ranchers led by Nate Champion band together to protect their rights to graze cattle on the open range.