Udforsk lokket fra det gamle vesten, og hvordan det blev vundet – og tabt – gennem manges blod, sved og tårer. Strækker sig 15 år før, under og efter borgerkrigen, fra 1859 til 1874, påbegynd en følelsesmæssig rejse gennem et land i krig med sig selv, oplevet gennem linsen af familier, venner og fjender, der alle forsøger at opdage, hvad det virkelig betyder at være USA.
En dilligence suser gennem vinterlandskabet, på vej mod Red Rock. Her vil dusørjægeren John Ruth overlade sin fangst, morderen Daisy, til hendes skæbne. Undervejs samler dilligencen den sorte dusørjæger major Warren og sydstatsoverløberen Mannix op. I snestormen søger kvartetten ly i et herberg. Her møder de yderligere fire hårdkogte typer. Otte fremmede, der opdager, at de måske alligevel ikke når så langt som til Red Rock.
Jack Sommersby vender efter seks års krigsfangenskab tilbage til den forarmede landsby Vine Hill. Hans kone Laurel kan nærmest ikke genkende sin egen mand, der har forandret sig fuldstændig. Sommersby, der tidligere drak og spillede kort, bliver en afholdt mand i landsbyen, og Laurel's skepsis manes i jorden. Men fortiden er ikke sådan at begrave.
Fem år efter den amerikanske borgerkrig halser en anskudt mand gennem Nevadas isnende bjerge og strømfald. Lige i hælene på ham følger den lige så sammenbidte oberst Carver, der stædigt jagter sit bytte helt ind i den bagende ørken. Men hvorfor er Carver så besat af at få fingrene i denne Gideon?
Tidligere P.O.W. Jack Calgrove flytter Himmel og Jord for at blive genforenet med sine børn efter borgerkrigen. Efter at være vendt hjem opdager Jack, at hans kone på tragisk vis er død, og at hans børn, der formodes at være forældreløse, er på vej dybt ind i Vesten på et tog, der krydser fjendens linjer med den hensigt at blive anbragt i nye hjem. Calgrove og en anden soldat slår sig sammen med en flok indianske skarpretter og en frigivet slave, mens de forsøger at stoppe toget.
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.
Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. The series was itself a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
Yancy Derringer is an American Western series
The Loner is an American western series that ran for less than one season on CBS from 1965 to 1966, under the alternate sponsorship of Philip Morris and Procter & Gamble.
The Lazarus Man is an American Western television series produced by Castle Rock Entertainment which first aired on January 20, 1996, and ended on November 9, 1996. Starring Robert Urich as the title character, The Lazarus Man debuted on Turner Network Television and ran for 20 episodes.
A powerful eight-hour adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1952 generational saga stars Bruce Boxleitner and Timothy Bottoms as battling brothers reminiscent of Cain and Abel, and Jane Seymour as the malevolent young woman who toys with their emotions.
Alone on Executioner's Row, Ned Blessing is a haggard, old cowboy and former sheriff. With nothing more than reflections on a life that's been filled with danger and excitement, he marks his time waiting and hoping that the man responsible for his imprisonment makes an appearance before the hangman does. With only a few days left to live, Blessing recounts his unbelievable life story.
