How the Wild West was Won with Ray Mears

Episode 2

Great Plains

Ray Mears finds out how 500,000 square miles of flat, treeless grassland was the setting for Wild West stories of Indians, wagon trains, homesteaders and cattle drives.

Episode 3

Deserts

Ray Mears looks at how the landscapes of America's five great deserts, from the Great Basin desert to Arizona's Sonoran desert, challenged the westward push of the pioneers.