Episode 1: "Wheel to the Stars"
A telling of American Western exploration begins with a Lakota-tribe holy man (Simon R. Baker) envisioning the white man's arrival. Meanwhile, a young Virginian (Matthew Settle) migrates to California by teaming with a band of mountain men, headed by rugged Jedediah Smith (Josh Brolin).
This series is an epic six-episode tale of the colonization of the American West - told from the perspective of two families, one of white settlers and one of Native Americans. Jacob Wheeler (Matthew Settle) leaves his dull life behind to strike out west, while Loved By the Buffalo (Joseph M. Marshall III) faces his destiny to try to fight a prophecy that his people will be wiped out by the settlers.
Jacob marries Loved By the Buffalo's sister Thunder Heart Woman, uniting the two families while around them relations between the two races crumble.
From the pioneering explorations of mountain men in 1825 to the tragic massacre of downtrodden Lakota at Wounded Knee in 1891, these parallel storylines intertwine real and fictional characters and events spanning the period of expansion of the United States in the American frontier… migrating wagon trains, the California Gold Rush, construction of the transcontinental railroad, the violence of Quantrill's Raiders.
Spanning 65 years and several generations, Into the West succeeds as an ambitious compendium of American history. Originally broadcast in the summer of 2005 as a six-part miniseries on TNT.
The show has a large cast, with about 250 speaking parts and features well-known performers including Josh Brolin, Gary Busey, Tonantzin Carmelo, Skeet Ulrich, Rachael Leigh Cook, Wes Studi, Alan Tudyk, Russell Means, Jay Tavare, Keri Russell, Graham Greene, Sean Astin, Beau Bridges, Judge Reinhold, Tom Berenger, David Paymer, Raoul Trujillo, Lance Henriksen, Tatanka Means, and Will Patton.
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