The West

The Grandest Enterprise Under God (1868-1874)

E5    Sep 19, 1996    80m    TV-PG
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A triumph of the human spirit, the transcontinental railroad opens a new era in the West, carrying homesteaders onto the prairies, bringing cowboys up the cattle trail from Texas, helping give women the vote in Utah and sending buffalo hunters onto the plains, where they drive a symbol of the West -- and a way of life -- to the brink of extinction.
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Cast of The Grandest Enterprise Under God (1868-1874)
  • Peter CoyoteSelf - Narrator
  • N. Scott MomadaySelf - Writer
  • Murphy GuyerSelf
  • John TrudellSelf
  • Eli WallachSelf
  • Arthur MillerSelf
  • John LithgowSelf
  • Gary SiniseT. P. Eagan
  • Jimmy SmitsSelf
  • Keith CarradineSelf
  • Adam ArkinSelf
  • Matthew BroderickSelf - William Swain
  • Ossie DavisSelf
  • Jason RobardsSelf - Brigham Young
  • Derek JacobiSelf (voice)
  • George PlimptonSelf (voice)
  • Ralph WaiteSelf (voice)
  • M. Emmet WalshSelf (voice)
  • Fred WardSelf / Charles Goodnight (voice)

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