Saddle up for an unforgettable ride along the rugged trails, rolling prairies and wide-open ranges of Cowboy Country. Along the way you'll meet legendary heroes, warriors and scoundrels . . . visit frontier towns, outposts and tribal villages . . . and relive the events that made the American West famous. Packed with vivid reenactments, colorful characters, historic photos and films, and fascinating facts, Cowboy Country is an entertaining journey through the real West of yesterday and today.

Cowboy Country is narrated by Barry Corbin (from television's Northern Exposure), a noted television and motion picture actor and also a real-life cowboy who makes his home on a ranch in Texas.

Cowboy Country Journeys
The American West is home to some of the world's most fantastic terrain. So by horseback, canoe, river raft, jeep and llama pack we see how the pioneer spirit to explore and discover is still very much alive and well.

Rail Journeys
Nothing so fundamentally changed the American West as did the "iron horse." This new form of transportation created fortunes, hastened the end of ancient cultures and shaped a new world. So climb aboard as we travel through the past and the present on America's Western railroads.

Critters Of Cowboy Country
Across the American West few treasures are as precious as the wildlife that roams this vast area. But for many of these animals -the bison, the elk, the deer, the wild horses- the days since the wild wild West have been perilous times. We visit them in their natural habitats and we see what's being done to protect them for the future.