Synopsis Pilot (1 x 60) HD + Planned series (13x60) HD Academy Award® winner, Michael Blake, author of Dances with Wolves, embarks on a road trip through the American West exploring historic battle sites and places of conflict between Whites and Indians. Through the unique lens of this impassioned storyteller, viewers gain a fresh look at the people, events and landscapes that shaped our country in the mid 1800’s. From Michael Blake, Academy Award® Winning author of Dances with Wolves Reviews Produced by Wolf Creek Productions "The American West - On the Road with Michael Blake represents many decades of reading and research and a virtually life-long compulsion to share impressions of the earth we tread and the lives we have, with as many as possible. Encouraging thought and inspiration in fellow humans means everything to this writer. In the case of this film (inspired by a chapter of the non-fiction book Indian Yell) history lovers are not the only ones we are attempting to engage. All who presently breathe have strong and important links with the past; as individuals and as members of American culture. Taking the journey back has the potential to provide anyone who does it with greater knowledge of the life they are currently leading. Reviewing former events whether large or small, gives the viewer, reader or table speaker the inexplicable realization that then is now. What individuals might do with such information is unknown and void of expectation. The enduring purpose of The American West is simple - giving those who watch an opportunity to travel back and take a look, possibly at themselves." -Michael Blake
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"... let the stories of the past be a light on the trail ahead.  In this fine documentary, Michael Blake once again takes us back to the 19th Century - this time on horseback for a thoughtful, vivid, and heartbreaking ride through American history, told by the master himself."                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                                  Deanne Stillman
                                                                                                                                                    Author of Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West and
                                                                                                                                                    Twentynine Palms: A True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave
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“Michael Blake has a fierce artistic integrity and an uncompromising vision.  In the finest tradition of great American revolutionaries, in American West Blake tells the true stories the ‘authorities’ don’t want us to know.”
                                                                                                      Jim Fergus
                                                                                                                                                        Author of One Thousand White Women and The Wild Girl
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“Michael Blake is a revelation as he walks and rides his horse over the land the Apaches once walked and rode for he is in harmony with the Apaches and their land and it shows in every frame of this beautifully photographed film.”
 
                                                                             Louis Kraft
                                                                                     Author of Gatewood & Geronimo and Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir.