DVD: The Way West- How the West Was Lost and Won

Between 1845 and 1893, the American West was lost and won - while the lives of hundreds of thousands of Native Americans were violently disrupted. This mesmerizing six-hour documentary series from acclaimed filmmaker Ric Burns (The Civil War, Coney Island, New York), chronicles the decades of the American frontier from the time of the Gold Rush until after the last gasp of the Indian wars at Wounded Knee.