The Grandest Enterprise Under God (1868-1874)

Overview

A triumph of the human spirit, the transcontinental railroad opens a new era in the West, carrying homesteaders onto the prairies, bringing cowboys up the cattle trail from Texas, helping give women the vote in Utah and sending buffalo hunters onto the plains, where they drive a symbol of the West -- and a way of life -- to the brink of extinction.

Episode Information

Guest Stars

Keith Carradine

Self (voice)

Ossie Davis

Self / John R. Gills (voice)

Derek Jacobi

Self (voice)

John Lithgow

Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice)

George Plimpton

Self (voice)

Ralph Waite

Self (voice)