Into the West

Synopsis

See summaries of each of the six episodes at Wikipedia under "Into the West (miniseries)." The following timeline is included in the miniseries at the beginning of each episode:
1824: Bureau of Indian Affairs becomes part of US War Dept.;
1826: Jedediah Smith leads men to California and then to Oregon;
1830: Fremont publishes results of exploring Oregon Trail;
1845: 1st battle of Mexican American War;
1848: Gold discovered in California;
1850: California enters the Union; clash between Indians and mining towns;
1851: Treaty of Ft. Laramie--peace on plains;
1853: Lakota chief Conquering Bear is killed; breaking of Laramie Treaty;
1857: President Buchanan sends troops to Utah; the Utah War was Mormon-related;
1860: Abe Lincoln elected President;
1861: Civil War begins;
1863: Lawrence, Kansas burned to the ground;
1864: Sand Creek Massacre;
1865: Robert E. Lee surrenders;
1865: Lincoln assassinated;
1866: US military adopts strategy to defeat Indians by exterminating buffaloes;
1866: Railroads build toward connecting Omaha and California;
1868: Second Ft. Laramie Treaty ends war along Bozeman Trail;
1874: Barbed wire patented;
1875: sitting Bull organizes greatest gathering of Indians on the North Plains to enforce the Laramie Treaty of '68, threatened by a Senate commission seeking access for miners in Black Hills;
1876: US government orders Lakota chiefs to report to their reservations or suffer the consequences; Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and others refuse;
1877: Congress repeals the '68 Laramie Treaty and takes back 40 million acres of Lakota land, including Black Hills;
1883: North Pacific RR connects NW states after 19 years of construction;
1886: Dawes Severalty Act defrauding Indians out of millions of acres;
1890: Sitting Bull killed after performing illegal ghost dance;
1890: 7th Cavalry massacre Lakota chief Big Foot and 350 at Wound Knee Creek;
1892: Settlers claim millions of acres confiscated from Crow and Cherokee lands;

Genre

Miniseries

Released

2005

Location

North America

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