Adventures Of The Old West Box Set #1-5 (1993) Rating: Starring: Kris Kristofferson Director: Stephen Purvis Category: Western, Special Interest Studio: Madacy Subtitles: [None] Length: 300 mins     Narrated and Containing Original Songs by Kris Kristofferson Scouts In The Wilderness: James Monroe's $15 million purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1803 gave America 830,000 square miles of uncharted land west of the Mississippi.What was contained in this vast area was anyone's guess.The call for exploration was answered by brave adventurers, pathfinders and mountain men who led the way to a new America.Vintage maps and detailed accounts help define their trailblazing glory.Travel to uncharted territory on Lewis and Clark's pioneering trek to the Pacific; the Rocky Mountain travels of John Charles Fremont and mapmaker Carl Preuss; the first-known voyage down the Colorado River by early environmentalist John Wesley Powell and much more. Texas Cowboys And The Trail Drives Maybe nothing symbolizes the Old West as well as the American cowboy.During the mid-to-late 1800's, thousands of these hearty souls rode the trails in now-legendary cattle drives.It was a rugged, independent, romantic way of life; as intriguing then as it is today.Rare photographs and detailed journals bring the cowpunching folk heroes back to life for an informative, entertaining glimpse of authentic cowboy lifestyles.You'll hear Nat Love's outrageous trail tales; take part in "the big round-up"; ride with the longhorn steers on their way north to Kansas and much more.Long after the dust has settled, the legend of the Texas Cowbvoy still stands as tall as ever. Great Chiefs At The Crossroads Manifest Destiny, the white man's self proclaimed "God-given" right to expand toward the Pacific, brought on decades of great battles with dozens of Native American tribes.Some fought desperately to save their homeland, while others believed in fighting with words, not weapons. Frontier Justice: The Law And The Lawless Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, John Wesley Hardin, Wild Bill Hickok, and Issac Parker ("The Hanging Judge") are some of the legends synonomous with the Old West.But have you heard the amazing tales of Joe Horner, Patt Garrett, The Dalton Gang, Belle Starr or John King Fisher?The real lives of these notorious characters are more interesting than any book or movie has ever told.Meet the cattle rustlers, bank thieves, train robbers, gamblers, gunfighters and lawmen who made the Old West so wild. The 49ers And The California Gold Rush There is nothing like the power of gold.When hard-working carpenter James marshall spotted "something shiny" in the American River on January 24, 1848, he felt the power.Soon, so did the rest of the country.Within weeks, thousands rushed to the land of glittering dreams.Young, old, white, Mexican, or Indian, gold fever gripped them all.The quest for instant wealth created just as many problems as it solved.Classic photographs and stories reveal the exciting tales of triumph, turmoil, strife, new-found wealth and failure. Pioneers And The Promised Land For hundreds of thousands of men, women and children who fled westward in search of a "new world," the West was the land of opportunity and adventure -- the promised land.The mid-1800's saw a restless nation in search of many things; gold, freedom, rights, property and a new beginning.But the price of progress was high.Felled by disease, disillusionment, or disaster, many never found what they went looking for.