Robert Redford's The West - S01E04 - Showdown - FC

EPISODE 4
Showdown

Seeking to reclaim the glory of the Civil War, Lt. Colonel George Custer brazenly charges into the Indian camp at The Battle of Little Bighorn. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat Custer’s forces, down to the last man. The shocking news of “Custer’s Last Stand” reaches President Ulysses S. Grant back East during America’s bicentennial, and it couldn’t come at a worse time.

With a critical Presidential election looming in 1876, Jesse James brings his fight to the North as he attacks a Minnesota bank in the infamous Northfield Raid. The disastrous robbery sends James into hiding as the nation votes in the bitterest election in its history. President Grant prepares for the threat of another Southern uprising until the wheeling and dealing of the “Corrupt Bargain” names President Rutherford B. Hayes.

With Reconstruction ended, Hayes and General William T. Sherman turn back to the situation in the West, aiming to subdue Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse by targeting the most crucial element to their way of life: the buffalo.