Wild West Chronicles

Until he falls in love, Charlie Russell is an aimless cowhand who enjoys painting scenes of his life on the range. His new bride, Nancy, gives him the push he needs to stop cowboying in order to focus on the artwork that will soon make him famous.

The Dalton Gang attempts to pull off the most brazen bank robbery of the Old West when they hatch a plan to rob two banks at the same time. When their plan explodes in a hail of gunfire, only one Dalton is left alive to tell the tale. Bat Masterson heads west to uncover the real story.

The true tale of Pearl Hart, known as the notorious "Bandit Queen." With no money to care for her gravely ill mother, Pearl makes a fateful decision to enter a life of crime and soon becomes the first woman to rob a stagecoach in the Old West.

When they hear about a train with a full safe, Butch and Sundance plot one of the West's greatest train robberies. Their devious plan is to use official Union Pacific lanterns to signal the train and fool the engineer into believing a bridge is out.

When Mother Amadeus takes ill, former slave Mary Fields travels west to nurse the nun back to health. Soon Mary becomes a fearless mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, protecting the mail from bandits and earning the nickname "Stagecoach Mary."

After Bill Doolin escapes from jail, the US Marshals are determined to keep the notorious outlaw from robbing any more banks or trains. When Heck Thomas and his posse finally corner Doolin, he refuses to surrender, and gunfire is the only way out.

When a young Annie Oakley accepts a challenge to face one of the best sharpshooters in the country, she wins the match and his heart. She marries trick shot artist Frank Butler and they struggle to make it in show business. A better shooter, Annie must become the main attraction for them to succeed.

When a young boy is torn away from his frontier family, he becomes a man amongst the Apache, fully adapting to their customs and language. Though the years pass by, his mother never gives up hope that she will be reunited with her son once again.

Though lacking in experience, young lawman Elfego Baca more than compensates with courage. Just days on the job as a sheriff's deputy, he battles a wealthy rancher's hired guns in a legendary battle that comes to be known as the Frisco Shootout.

Legendary gunfighter-turned-newspaperman Bat Masterson recalls his time as sheriff of Dodge City when he and Wyatt Earp brought law and order to the notorious town. When a beloved dance hall singer is shot, they race to bring her killer to justice.

Legendary gunfighter-turned-newspaperman Bat Masterson recalls his time as sheriff of Dodge City when he and Wyatt Earp outlawed guns north of the town's "dead line." When a troublemaker ignores the law, they do what they must to keep the town safe.

As one of the few female physicians in the late 1800s, Dr. Susan Anderson faces her share of doubters on the Western Frontier, but she earns the trust of a rough-and-tumble Colorado mining town when she saves the life of a severely injured young boy.

Escaped slave Bass Reeves heads west to find sanctuary among the Native Americans. After the Civil War, he becomes the first black Deputy U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi and hunts down one of the most feared killers in the Indian Territories.

When a ruthless outlaw is on the loose, an aloof rancher volunteers to help the Texas Rangers track him down. Along the way, the rancher transforms from loner to lawman and begins a legendary career that inspires the hit novel, The Lone Star Ranger.

Former friends Wild Bill Hickok and Davis Tutt begin to argue over gambling debts and the affections of a beautiful woman. When they meet in the middle of town, their rift is settled once and for all in the Old West's first quick-draw duel.

For months, a thin wall of rock is all that keeps the peace between two rival silver mining companies 300 feet below the Idaho mountains. Above ground, the claims overlap, and the owners of the Ida Elmore Mine and the Golden Chariot Mine both lay claim to any silver in the disputed area. When the rock wall is finally breached, pickaxes give way to pistols and rifles as one hundred miners prepare for battle. When gunfire erupts, the first casualty is John C. Holgate, owner of the Golden Chariot. For the next five days the bloody battle rages on and only comes to end when the territorial governor threatens to dispatch Army troops from Fort Boise to quell the violence. Though the conflict appears to be over, hard feelings spill to the surface, and J. Marion Moore, owner of the Ida Elmore Mine is gunned down in the streets of Silver City. Years later, gunfighter-turned-reporter Bat Masterson tracks down one of the surviving miners to get the real story of the Battle Beneath the Mountain.

In his first week on the job as the new constable of Jerome, Arizona, Jim Roberts gets to work arresting the town's troublemakers and teaching his timid deputy how to be a true lawman as they track down a stone-cold killer and his gang.

In an odd twist of fate, photographers C.S. and Mollie Fly open a studio next to a dusty corral in Tombstone, Arizona, and they end up taking the last shot of the Old West's most infamous gunbattle, the Shootout at the O.K. Corral.

When failed prospector John Hicks Adams is elected sheriff, he must prove that he won't be a bust as a lawman too. Just weeks into the job, his courage is put to the test when a band of stagecoach robbers begins terrorizing the area.

After the suspicious death of a tunnel worker, and unconvincing answers from the project's lead engineer, Doc Susie goes underground to find out what happened. Instead, she finds her own life in peril when she's trapped by a cave-in.

Marshal Ed Masterson's youngest brother, James, decides to follow in his footsteps and become a lawman. But when James' life is threatened, middle brother Bat Masterson races back from Arizona to protect his kin.

After Marshal Ed Masterson is shot while trying to break up a barroom brawl, he hastily bans all firearms in Dodge City. Ed's swift proclamation is met with disdain, even from his own brothers, and places an even larger target on his back.

When Black cowboy Nat Love hears word that a Deadwood business owner is putting up $200 for a Fourth of July cowboy competition, he immediately signs up to prove his mettle against the best ropers, riders, and shooters around.

Two Pinkerton detectives join forces to track a notorious bank robber. During a shootout, the Missouri Kid kills seasoned detective Charles Schumacher, leaving young George Dougherty to finish the job and avenge his colleague's death.

When homesteaders keep cutting down her fences to access grazing land, a widowed landowner teams up with famed Texas Ranger Ira Aten to protect her property. Aten hopes his explosive plan of action will force the cutters to compromise.

It's not gold that brings treasure hunters to the windblown bluffs of Wyoming: it's bones. After stumbling upon a strange fossil, a man is caught in the crossfire of rival paleontologists who are warring over a trove of dinosaur bones.

After two Mexican vaqueros cross the border in search of their stolen cattle, they are gunned down by the rustlers. When El Paso's newly appointed marshal arrests local ranch hands for the murders, he sparks one of the West's most infamous gunfights.

The Many Faces of Charles Siringo

When a deadly smallpox outbreak spreads, Calamity Jane works to save the lives of the infected citizens who once treated her with such contempt.

After failing to capture the ruthless murderer Augustine Chacon on U.S. soil, Arizona Ranger Burton Mossman relinquishes his badge to cross the border. In Mexico, he goes undercover as a horse thief to join Chacon's gang and spring his trap.

As U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves attempts to arrest Belle Starr and her outlaw husband, Belle asks for 24 hours to find someone to care for her young daughter, Pearl. When the Starr family decides to flee instead, the Marshal must track them down.

Teenaged fugitive William Bonney is given a second chance when a kindhearted ranch owner, John Tunstall, offers him a job. Within days, Tunstall becomes a close friend and something of a father figure to young Bonney. But when his new employer is killed in cold blood, Bonney reverts to his criminal ways and vows to seek vengeance. Enraged and once again alone, Bonney faces off with the men who gunned down Tunstall and the bullets begin to fly. Years later, gunfighter-turned-newspaperman Bat Masterson enters the campaign headquarters of congressional candidate Robert Widenmann, who also worked for Tunstall, to find out how a young William Bonney was transformed into the notorious Billy the Kid.

In 1880, Bat Masterson's old friend, Ben Thompson, asks him to help save his brother from the gallows. Ben's brother, Billy, has evidently shot off a man's thumb in a gunfight and is wounded himself. While Billy claims self-defense, an overzealous sheriff is eager to see him hang. Though he is no longer a lawman, and he lacks any kind of legal authority, Bat agrees to travel to Nebraska to talk to the sheriff. When his common-sense appeal fails to impress the sheriff, Bat hatches an elaborate plan to help Billy escape, which only succeeds when Buffalo Bill shows up to lend a hand. Years later, when Bat's editor balks at printing the tale, Bat tries to explain the difficulties of dispensing justice in the Old West.

When bandits rob a train and gun down a pursuing marshal, they spark one of the largest manhunts in California history. After taking shelter behind the crumbling walls of Stone Corral, they make their final stand against a hail of gunfire.

When outlaw John Wesley Hardin murders a sheriff, a hard-charging Texas Ranger joins forces with a cool-headed police detective to hunt down the killer. The unlikely duo must learn how to work together to end Hardin's reign of terror.

Under siege by gunslingers, the gold mining town of Yankee Hill runs a newspaper ad to find a new marshal. Former slave and Union soldier Willie Kennard answers the ad, but he faces prejudice and doubt as he tries to restore law and order.

Marshal Chris Madsen helps newly appointed judge John Buford bring law and order to No Man's Land in Oklahoma's Panhandle. After escorting a wagon train of prisoners to Beaver City, they set up their first courthouse inside a rowdy saloon.

When a bandito terrorizes early Los Angeles County, an eager reporter shadows the sheriff who is hunting the dangerous outlaw. Will the reporter stay objective or take matters into his own hands when he comes face to face with the killer?

When a mild-mannered druggist and former teacher becomes sheriff, he attempts to enforce the law without carrying a weapon. But he soon faces his greatest challenge when the last surviving members of the Wild Bunch descend on his town.

Wells Fargo detective James Hume hires private investigator Harry Morse to join the hunt for Black Bart, the infamous stagecoach bandit known as the Poet Highwayman due to the tantalizing poems he leaves at the scenes of his crimes.

Chinese immigrant Wong Fee Lee joins a convoy of miners headed to Deadwood, where he hopes to strike gold and start a business. But when they are attacked by bandits, Wong must find the strength to lead his fellow prospectors in battle.

After being sworn in as one of Oklahoma's first female deputy marshals, Ada Curnutt volunteers to track down two killers-turned-counterfeiters and concocts a cunning plan to bring them to justice without using a gun.

When Bronco Bill and his gang are robbing trains at will, two veteran lawmen join forces to stop the violent outlaws. Years later, gunfighter-turned-reporter Bat Masterson hears the story from the last surviving member of the gang.

After a man murders his wife in a jealous rage and goes on the run, local lawmen are stunned when legendary Marshal Bass Reeves accepts responsibility for bringing the killer to justice...because the murderer is Reeves' own son, Bennie.

After leaving Dodge City, Bat Masterson takes a job as manager of Denver's Palace Theatre. There he falls in love with Emma Walter, a juggling virtuoso known as the Queen of Clubs, and begins to question his life as a gunslinger.