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Summary:EPISODE THREE : THE RAILROAD & THE BUFFALO - 1865 - 1869 BY 1865, FOUR BLOODY YEARS OF CIVIL WAR HAD RE-UNITED THE NORTH AND SOUTH. THE TIME HAD COME TO FINISH UNITING IT EAST AND WEST, AND THE RESTLESS, WAR-WEARY NATION TOOL UP THE TASK OF CONQUERING THE CONTINENT WITH RENEWED SPEED. LEADING THE WAY WAS THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD, TRANSFORMING THE ENVIRONMENT AND DESTROYIGN THE LAST UNVIOLATED BUFFALO RANGES ON THE GREAT PLAINS - CRUCIAL TO THE INDIAN'S WAY OF LIFE. THOUGH SOME NATIVE AMERICANS MOUNTED A FURIOUS COUNTER-OFFENSIVE, NOTHING COULD BE ALLOWED TO STAND IN THE WAY OF THE RAILROAD. IN 1869, THE TWO ENDS OF THE TRANSCONTINENTAL WERE LINKED, SEALING THE FATE OF THE NATIVE AMERICANS ACROSS THE WEST.
Description:AS A FOLLOW-UP TO THE CIVIL WAR RIC BURNS TELLS THE STORY OF THE WILD WEST.