Great American Railroad Journeys

Great American Railroad Journeys

Dodge City to Lamar, Colorado (2x6)


Air date: Jan 30, 2017

Michael Portillo's first stop aboard the Southwest Chief is Dodge City, Kansas, a famous frontier town of the Old West, where he visits the notorious Long Branch Saloon, scene of many shoot-outs. He finds the Dodge City Cowboy Band performing at the city depot and breaks bread with a descendant of a railroad land agent who sold thousands of acres of land to 19th-century European settlers. Near Lamar, Colorado, Michael visits the scene of a terrible massacre of American Indians, who found themselves in the way of white settlement of the Great Plains.

  • Premiered: Feb 2016
  • Episodes: 75
  • Followers: 6
  • Ended
  • BBC Two
  • Saturday at 20