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Wild West: America's Great Frontier: Desert Heartlands

Wild West: America's Great Frontier (2016)

Documentary, Animals, Nature | UK

Director: Ian Gray, Felicity Lanchester

BBC2 | Monday, 8 January 2024 | 16:15

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Monday, 8 January 2024 16:15

Monday, 13 March 2023 15:30

Tuesday, 26 April 2022 00:20

SEASON: 1

EPISODE: 1 - Desert Heartlands

SYNOPSIS

This legendary land of red rocks and vast canyons, outlaws and gunslingers, is a brutally tough place to live. But nature has found some extraordinary ways to win through, forging a pioneering spirit found nowhere else on Earth. Discover the amazing ways that mustangs and coyotes, Hopi farmers and even desert tortoises have found to survive in this extremely testing land.

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Producer: Patrick Morris

Narrator: James Norton, Sander Guis

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