"America, land of opportunity" - when was the legend forged? What drove men, women and children to migrate by the thousands to the Pacific coast? Do the names Jesse James, Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill ring a bell? How did Luzena Wilson or Belinda Mulrooney prosper? What was hidden behind the gold in the mines of Colorado? How did the Lakota defend the Black Hills against Crow and white invaders? Did you know that modern barbecue was born here and that a Spaniard was the first outsider to talk about it? John Wayne or Clint Eastwood: what's true about the image of cowboys that has come down to us? Besides the love of poker and rodeos, what did the West bequeath to the United States?