How the West Was Won (TV Series)

Buffalo Story (1978)

William Conrad: Narrator

Quotes 

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  Narrator : 1868 - A terrible civil war was three years in the past. The golden railroad spike which was to tie two oceans together would be pounded home one year in the future and the first great herd of cattle was driven up the dusty trails from Texas. It was a time of explosive enterprise and enormous tension. While the civil war had left thousands homeless and impoverished, peaceful religious sects were still facing dreadful persecution and the bitterness between indian and white was reaching a climax. The west, once a land of awesome but tranquil beauty, had become a battleground for a hundred diverse reasons. And in the midst of these conflicting clauses stood the settlers, among them one family named Macahan and a man called... Zeb.