In the American West, during the lusty, hard-hitting time when laws were frequently broken and progress was charted by individual sacrifice and survival, a family tries to make a life and a home in frontier Oregon, revealing How the West Was Won. Independent mountain man Zeb (James Arness), accustomed to the harsh realities of life on the frontier, his sister-in-law Kate (Eva Marie Saint), alone since the death of her husband and struggling to maintain a home for her daughters and a young son, and Luke (Bruce Boxleitner), Kate’s eldest son, a fugitive deserter from the Union Army struggle to survive in this dramatic series as big and wild as the land they are trying to tame.
