A 13-part personal history of the United States written and narrated by Alistair Cooke
8: Domesticating a Wilderness
The rail link across the continent,
.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.
After seeing it I'd brave Indians, barbed wire and Mormonism to get the hell out.
(DAILY MAIL)
Director TIM SLESSOR
Producer MICHAEL GILL