THE WEST offers the opportunity to take a guided tour through the history of the American West, following in the footsteps of filmmakers Ken Burns and Stephen Ives, or to strike out across this historical landscape on one's own.

I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie mice, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak. Sitting Bull cited in The West: An Illustrated History, by Geoffrey C. Ward (Little, Brown) TO: SHAME and GLORY BY GARY KAMIYA ...