Este documental de una hora examina la vida de la famosa Tiradora Expert y artista del Salvaje Oeste, Annie Oakley, desde su nacimiento en la rural Pensilvania de mediados del siglo XIX hasta su muerte en 1926. Se desmienten muchos mitos y el programa también destaca un juicio poco conocido en el que Annie Oakley tuvo que demandar a la cadena de periódicos The Hearst en todo el país por difamación cuando informaron sobre las actividades de alguien que se hacía pasar por la famosa tiradora y manchaba su reputación.

In 1886, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show played to over one million people in New York City. It was one of the most elaborate shows on earth. There were cowboys and Indians, sharp shooters including the famed Annie Oakley, hundreds of horses, buffalo, elk and donkeys, with more than 200 cast members, all moving about in a sweeping western landscape of mountains and plains. It would go on to dazzle crowds in London, Paris, Rome and Barcelona, cementing the legend of the Wild West in the minds of people around the globe. Behind the extravaganza was one man -- a meager plainsman turned international celebrity and frontier hero, whose meteoric rise to fame was made possible only by his genius, and his hucksterism. His name was William Cody, better known to the world as Buffalo Bill.

From PBS and American Experience - In the summer of 1868, paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh boarded a Union Pacific train for a sightseeing excursion through the heart of the newly opened American West. While most passengers simply saw magnificent landscapes, Marsh soon realized he was traveling through the greatest dinosaur burial ground of all time.