"This film draws upon rich archival materials, original recreations, and interviews with authors and historians to bring the legendary trapper, scout, and soldier to vivid life, and provide a lens on a pivotal but little-understood era in American history"--Container.

"A life of adventure and military daring on violent frontiers across the American West, Africa, Mexico, and the Klondike"--Amazon.com.

In this dual biography, McMurtry explores the lives, the legends, and above all the truth about two larger-than-life American figures. With his Wild West show, Buffalo Bill Cody helped invent the image of the West that still exists today--cowboys and Indians, rodeo, rough rides, sheriffs and outlaws, trick shooting, Stetsons, and buck-skin. His most celebrated protégée, the short, slight Annie Oakley--born Phoebe Ann Moses in Ohio--spent sixteen...

He discovered the Great Salt Lake, and was one of the foremost trappers in the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. He opened the Overland Route, which was the path of the Overland Stage, the Pony Express, and the Union Pacific railroad.