The economic and cultural growth of town of Centennial, Colorado, through the intertwining lives of the brave men and women inhabiting it. Spanning two centuries from the settling of the area in the 1700s, to the late 1970s.
The peaks and the valleys. Find the essential episodes — and the ones to skip.
At the end of the 1700s, a French-Canadian trapper travels to the Rocky Mountains in present-day Colorado where he forms friendships and has death-defying adventures while trading with various Native American tribes.
As wars rage across America in the mid 1800s, a militia man from Minnesota, Frank Skimmerhorn, takes his personal vendetta to Colorado in an effort to kill all Indians, including the Pasquinel brothers.
John Skimmerhorn hires R.J. Poteet to lead the difficult cattle drive from Texas to Colorado on behalf of Oliver Seccombe and the Venneford Ranch. Sixteen-year-old Jim Lloyd joins the drive along with cowboys Nate Person, a former slave, Amos Calendar, and Bufe Coker. Meanwhile, Hans Brumbaugh vows to never sell his land to Seccombe.
A magazine prepares to do a feature on the history of Centennial; the murder of Soren Sorenson is finally proved; Morgan Wendell and Paul Garrett face off in an election that may determine the future of Colorado's natural resources.
Each point is an episode, plotted in order. Colored bands mark season boundaries. Look for the rise, the plateau, or the decline.
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