A Personal History of the United States in 13 parts written and narrated by Alistair Cooke

The rail link across the continent, which was completed in 1869; the invention of the wind pump, the steel-faced plough and barbed wire-these developments were fatal not only to the Indian but to the free-ranging cowboy with his now-romanticised lawlessness. Alistair Cooke looks at the end of the Wild West, and at some of the men and - especially - women who tamed it.
(Rptd: Monday, 8.25 pm. This series Is currently printed in The Listener)
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