Robert Redford's The American West | Crazy Horse, Billy the Kid & the Making of the Wild West

After the smoke clears at Little Bighorn, the fight for the American West is far from over. This documentary follows the dramatic turning point that reshaped the frontier, where Native resistance collapses, outlaw legends are born, and lawmen rise to impose order on a rapidly changing land. As the U.S. government escalates its campaign to exterminate the buffalo, Lakota leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse face impossible choices. Their paths diverge, ending with surrender, betrayal, and the death of one of the greatest Native American warriors in history. As Native nations are forced onto reservations and assimilation policies attempt to erase their culture, the West explodes with opportunity and violence. Gold floods the economy, immigrants pour into the country, and the cattle industry creates vast fortunes, and equally vast corruption. Out of this chaos emerges a new generation of Western legends: • Billy the Kid, an orphaned gunman drawn into the deadly Lincoln County War • Ruthless cattle barons battling for control of land and power • Wyatt Earp, a restless frontier drifter who becomes one of the West’s most feared lawmen • Boom towns fueled by cattle, whiskey, guns, and prostitution From the fall of Crazy Horse to the rise of Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp, this film reveals how the Wild West was forged—not by myth, but by desperation, ambition, and violence. Welcome to Absolute Westerns, the home of the best westerns you can find online. For more tumbleweeds, horse riding and saloons, you can subscribe to the channel here: https://tinyurl.com/AbsoluteWesterns