Wild West: America's Great Frontier
TV-G
7.8
2016
Documentary
Discover the amazing ways nature has found to survive in the extremely testing land of America's wild west.
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- Cast:
- James Norton
Episode 2 : The High Country
October. 16,2016
America's high country is the land of grizzly bears and giant trees, of frigid winters and scorching summers, of tough ranchers and gold rush fever. From the Rockies to the Sierra Nevada, survival demands endurance and know-how. From parasitic plants to thieving black bears, tenacious pikas and battling bison, it's in the high country that the west gets really wild.
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Episode 1 : Desert Heartlands
October. 09,2016
This legendary land of red rocks and vast canyons, outlaws and gunslingers is a brutally tough place to live. But nature has found some extraordinary ways to win through, forging a pioneering spirit found nowhere else on earth. Discover the amazing ways that mustangs and coyotes, Hopi farmers and even desert tortoises have found to survive in this extremely testing land.
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