Robert Redford's The West - S01E08 - The Last Vendetta - FClaw

Last In The Series

EPISODE 8
The Last Vendetta

As America continues its steady march of progress towards a new century, the final crackdown on the lawless West reaches its bloody climax.

After the gunfight at the O.K. Corral and its violent aftermath results in his brother’s death, Wyatt Earp takes the law into his own hands with his “Vendetta Ride,” leaving a trail of blood across Arizona and forcing him to flee the territory.

Billy the Kid escapes from prison, but lawman Pat Garrett tracks him down, and shoots and kills him; Billy dies at the tender age of 21. With a bounty on his head, Jesse James recruits brothers Charley and Robert Ford to protect him, but Robert betrays Jesse and puts a bullet in his head instead.

Sitting Bull returns to America and surrenders to a reservation, soon leaving to tour the country and become a spokesman for his people in an effort to preserve the Sioux way of life. When the ‘Ghost Dance’ causes fear of another Sioux uprising, Sitting Bull becomes its scapegoat, and is shot and killed; two weeks later, what remains of his people are massacred at Wounded Knee.

That same year, the American frontier is officially “closed,” but already, nostalgia begins for the days of the lawless west, and the lives of the men who defined it.