How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears

BBC Four HD

12:45 AM to 1:45 AM

Wednesday 4 June

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The adventurer explores how the Great Plains - 500,000-square miles of flat, treeless grassland - became the setting for some of the Wild West's most dramatic events. Ray joins members of the Blackfeet Nation as they demonstrate bare-back riding skills before undertaking a ritual buffalo hunt and sacrifice. At a cattle auction in Dodge City, Kansas, he reveals stories about the railways and cow-towns before learning about the life of an iconic figure - the cowboy