Into the Wild Frontier

Great story telling that really gives you a sense of what drove these men and women west.

To those who have been questioning how the American Indians had guns as early as Lewis and Clark, the answer is the Spanish and French were out there decades before Americans and traded and coexisted mostly peacefully with them. There were fights but nothing compared to what happened with Americans.

The series shows thatbtrade and commerce were important to the Indians and what they could not trade they took, and rightfully so.

My only complaint would be I wish they had told the stories chronologically. Bouncing from 1820 in season 1 to 1750s in season 2 took away from the feel of westward expansion.

Excellent watchable and educational.

Historians narrate events in American History as factually as you've ever thought you already knew.

Dramatizations are either SNL type parodies of an actual dramatization, or someone deliberately made them cheesy enough to see where the line is with subtle comedy.

I discovered this series.

I do mountain man reanacting and love this stuff.

But I'm not sure Indians had western saddles with horns.

The scenery is amazing.

Wish it told who played , I have read the journals.

Since my knowledge of the history of this era is very limited (virtually non existent) I was able to take the stories at face value without trying to critique the clothing, weapons and saddles used. Even if it's not totally true to life I think it did a great job of portraying the struggles of these brave men and women. I still marvel at their ability to find their way through such a vast expanse. They had skills 150 to 200 years ago that most of us today don't have even with the help of our modern technology. Nothing but respect for them.

I've enjoyed watching the first a few episodes. Good stories, well acted. But I do wonder where the Indians, living in middle of nowhere, with little to no contact with white men, get all those rifles., gun power, musket balls and saddles. Secondly, many of their horses bridles have modern steel bits. One scene had two horses wearing halters which appeared to be made of modern braded nylon. There has been a lot of attention paid to story detail so I was surprised to see these pretty obvious errors.

Good stories. We need more programs like this showing history, not just "shoot em up" Hollywood westerns.