Wild West
2016 • BBC America
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Season 1 episodes (3)
1 Desert Heartlands
10/9/16
Travel from the cold deserts of Nevada to the giant cactus-studded lands of Arizona and the scorching Mojave Desert in California. Discover how some of America’s most iconic animals like mustangs and coyotes have learned to survive.
2 The High Country
10/16/16
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, in this land of extreme seasons, survival demands endurance. It’s all about taking what you need to stay alive, from parasitic plants to thieving black bears, and tenacious pikas to battling bison.
3 Restless Shores
10/23/16
Tectonic forces shape all life here, creating stunning landscapes like the San Andreas Fault, reaching all the way north to the Pacific coast. Meanwhile elephant seals battle it out for mates, grey whales form a unique friendship with a small community of people and gulf grunion fish race ashore to spawn in their millions.
About this show
Welcome to America’s Wild West, a legendary land known for its scorching hot deserts, red rock canyons, giant snow-capped mountains, and rugged shorelines. This series explores the Canyonlands, the high country and the shores. It reveals how these three radically different worlds were formed, the forces that shape them today and how life has found brave and enterprising ways to survive.
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