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.
Peter Coyote
Self - Narrator
N. Scott Momaday
Self - Writer
Murphy Guyer
Self
John Trudell
Self
Eli Wallach
Self
Arthur Miller
Self
John Lithgow
Self
Gary Sinise
T. P. Eagan
Jimmy Smits
Self
Keith Carradine
Self
Adam Arkin
Self
Matthew Broderick
Self - William Swain
Ossie Davis
Self
Jason Robards
Self - Brigham Young