The West begins as the whole world to the people who live there. It becomes a New World when Europeans arrive, a world shaken by incompatible visions. And almost three centuries later, when Lewis and Clark venture west to find a Northwest Passage, this world becomes the testing-ground for a young nation's continent-spanning dream.

• Geoffrey C. Ward
• Stephen Ives

• Keith Carradine
• Jason Robards
• John Lithgow