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Imelda 2022-01-22 08:03:11

The play focuses on the intertwining of the fate of the Indian tribe, the Lakota tribe and the white wheeler Wheeler family of three generations. In just six episodes, the play narrates the history of the western United States for nearly a hundred years, shocking the reality. The conflict between modern civilization and tradition is the core of the entire drama series. From the perspective of individuals and families, the entire history is unfolded.
History is bloody and realistic.
The whole play makes people feel the adventurous spirit in the bones of white people.
Jacob's adventurous spirit and courage. Perseverance to love, care for family affection, awe-inspiring, showing the image of a real man.
Lei Zhixin's hardships, strong courage and indifferent attitude towards life are home to the Lakta or Wheeler, and his love for his own race is deep.
Their races, brothers and sisters, and the lives of offspring and grandchildren all form the core of the play, full and true. Different personalities and experiences, death ~
a series worth recommending. Even if you don't know the history of the United States, you can understand the process and truth of history objectively.

Attach a brief introduction to the episode to help sort out ~
Episode 1 The Wheel to the Stars (Wheel to the Stars)

In the early 19th century, the California area of ​​North America was the last home of the Sioux Indians Lectar. Their god is Waka Thangka, transformed into bison to provide them with food, so they are also known as the bison nation. But their history is fading away, and their patriarch "Roaring Bear" predicted according to fantasy that the bison is about to disappear...
In a family of blacksmiths in central North America, the youngest son Jacopo was always laughed at. One day, he helped an elderly cowboy change the baffle of his gun. He accidentally heard that the legendary ranger Mr. Smith was going to expedition to the west. He decided to follow... In a hunt for a herd of bison, an angry bison trampled a group to death. The tribe, but let go of the "coward" Hayuka inside, and he also got rid of the name of "coward" and became a divine "Buffalo messenger". According to the instructions of the dead "snarling bear" fantasy, The totem of their tribe-the wheel of medicine was rebuilt. "Heart of Thunder", the sister of "Bison Messenger", was married by a white man who bartered with Indians and had a child. But soon they were attacked by other tribes, the white people were killed, the "Thunder Heart" was captured, and the life of the children was unknown...Jacob and their expedition were also attacked by Indians, and only he and Smith flee for their lives. Jacopo, who wandered to the bazaar, accidentally saw the "Heart of Thunder" being trafficked. He was shocked by the sorrowful eyes of "Heart of Thunder", risked his death and duel with bidders, and finally gave "Heart of Thunder" freedom. "Thunder Heart" took Jacopo back to his tribe, and when he saw "Buffalo Messenger", both of them felt familiar. The Indian tribes are about to migrate. The "Buffalo Messenger" chose to leave his tribe. He wants to find ways and means to change the fantasy of destruction seen by the "Roaring Bear"...

The end of the journey in Episode 2 (Manifest Destiny)

With the development of trade with whites, Lekta split internally, and "Flying Fox", the younger brother of "Sirius", left with some people. Jacopo returned to his home in California with his wife "Heart of Thunder", and they had a young daughter, Marguerite, "Shining." Their family has been waiting for their return. Jacopo’s brother Nathan is now in Texas and married a Mexican. After working at home for a while, Jacopo still couldn’t get rid of his yearning for the West. His brother and three cousins ​​also followed him to roam around... "Flying Fox" took his son to the market to barter, but he didn’t get anything. In the battle for territory, they were bullied by tribes with guns. They began to use horses for rifles... The Jacopo’s family moved around to work. One day in Independence, they met Stephen Hawksey, who was recruiting an expedition. After consideration, they joined the expedition of this brigade. The early stages of the expedition were pleasant. They saw a magnificent herd of bison. But it was like the curse of the god "Wakatangka". After that, the expedition team continued to doom, and Jacopo lost two cousins ​​one after another. Just when everyone thought there was a turning point, cholera came...The Jacopo family Because he had contact with cholera patients and was isolated from the expedition, his only remaining cousin, Naomi, left them with the brigade. Jacopo’s brother Jessrow also made the announcement. Jacopo did not give up on him... They finally defeated cholera and planned to catch up with the big team, but the expedition team ahead had been attacked by Indians and all died. Sister Naomi was snatched away by the Xia'an people... "The Buffalo messenger is still trying to find a way to dispel the "snarling bear" fantasy, but there is no sign. Jacopo and the others were also attacked, and the injured Jacopo could not move. , Asked to stay alone, and waited for the injury to recover before looking for his wife, children and brothers. They were separated like this, looking forward to reunion someday. Jacopo met his wife’s brother "Flying Fox", and "Flying Fox" gave him a horse. Changed his rifle. Naomi married Xia'an chief "Prairie Fire" and had a son "Unicorn", she decided to treat this as her home from now on.
Six years later, Jacopo who joined the army Finally ran into his own family, but his wife "Thunder Heart" has married his younger brother. He looked at the happy family in front of him and secretly hung the tribal sacred gift from "Thunder Heart" on him. On the neck of the youngest son, he chose to leave...


Episode 3 Dreams and Schemes (Dreams and Schemes)

"Heart of Thunder" looks very happy now at home, and the Jessrow team is very good. Gold was found in California rivers, which attracted a large number of gold prospectors. After Margaret learned that her father was still alive, she searched everywhere. She was tricked into the barracks and was rescued by photographer Ethan Biggs who happened to see...Jessrow, who occasionally found gold, began to do it. With the dream of getting rich, "Thunder Heart" had an ominous premonition. Jacopo’s eldest son Abraham and Jessrow clashed. He took a little money from his mother and ran away from home...
"Sirius" and "Flying Fox" came to the place where the bison were hunted back then. The path that was once so clear, now it seems that many people are lost. Jessrow’s distant relative, David, came to take refuge in them. They found a huge piece of gold together, but because of this gold, David killed Jessrow, and David himself sank to the bottom of the river because of the heavy gold nugget.
Lei Zhixin opened a small restaurant and waited for Jacopo to come back one day. Margaret married Ethan, and she finally found her father, and Jacopo's family was reunited. The Indians and the white people signed a peace treaty, the famous "Fort Laramie Treaty" in history. Because of a bull that broke into the Lekta tribe by mistake and a stupid white translator, a more stupid lieutenant slaughtered the tribe. The Indians also killed them, the fragile peace was broken, and blood was flowing everywhere...
6 Years later, in 1860, another Jacob family brother Samson Kansas had a wheel shop. He hired a free black Henry, and his adopted daughter Clara was an excellent tailor. Unfortunately, they were targeted by racists. Jacopo’s eldest son Abraham is now a long-distance postman. His superb riding skills allowed the Indians to let him go in the wilderness. His younger son Jacopo II went to join the army and became a scout. The Indians went around sabotaging the white telegraph lines, and "Sirius" lost a son. The Samsons were attacked by racists, and only the youngest daughter Clara escaped and went to her mother Omaha’s cousin Daniel...


Episode 4 Hell on Wheels
"Bison Messenger" is still in the forest Wandering, he became weaker and weaker. The U.S. government began to lay the railroad running through the United States, and Daniel's wheel paving was built where the railroad passed. Clara came to take refuge in him, and Daniel cruelly tried to drive her away, and his wife and eldest son Robert kept her.
Margaret and her husband took pictures everywhere. They lived happily and planned to visit their mother's hometown together. However, they were intercepted by the Xia'an on the road. The patriarch of Xia'an asked Margaret to make a connection. During a peace talk with a white man, her Indian ancestry made her and her husband live in the camp very happily. They took many photos.
Abraham is now unemployed and he participated in the road construction project. The militant Colonel Gwinton advocated beheading the Indians. He wanted to expand his armaments and begin the massacre of the Indians. Margaret witnessed the treachery of the white man. She lost her husband and decided to live like her mother in her early years... Robert and Clara fell in love. The lives of the Indians became more and more miserable. They wanted revenge, and "Red Cloud" became the battle leader of the entire Indians. This is not a stupid revenge. They think like white people. As a result of the war, the Indians won for the first time, and the white people returned the holy land of the Lekta people. Many Chinese were recruited to build railways. Abraham and Chinese Zhou Ping became friends. Zhou Ping saved his life when he opened the mountain with explosives.
Daniel Wheeler started to do speculative business near the railway. They did business along the railway line and became more and more prosperous. Robert planned to leave his father and build his own new home with Clara. Jacopo II found his sister Marguerite among the prisoners of battle. She refused to go home. She asked her younger brother to tell her parents that she had died in the gravel creek...

Episode 5 Casualties of War (Casualties of War). )
White people played baseball in the holy land of Indians and occasionally found gold. The newspapers began to publicize, and people poured into this place in large numbers. Someone paid Robert to help deliver the goods, and met two robbers on the road, and Robert shot them to death. The territories of the Indians were being eroded more and more, and many Indians began to assimilate. Clara is very worried about Robert's safety, and she is also dissatisfied with the appearance of speculative business faintly appearing on him. In addition to work, she volunteers to teach the children around him to study every day. Robert accompanies Ben in the bison leather business, and he is discouraged by throwing the bison leather to the passing Indian captives, and is admired by Colonel Prati. The whites gave less and less food, and Margaret became self-sufficient with the female captives who followed her.
The son of "Sirius", "The Son of the Wind," imagined fighting like a warrior. They began to achieve some victories. In one of the battles, Jacopo II was killed, and he asked his comrades to bring home letters to his parents. Jacopo and "Heart of Thunder" came to the post office, and they asked Robert to take them to the place where their son died in battle. There, Heart of Thunder held a soul ceremony for his youngest son.
Most of the Indians eventually became captives. Colonel Prati came to Robert and asked the couple to work as teachers at the Indian Assimilation School that they opened. Margaret also began to teach the girls. When the time came in 1879, the "Son of the Wind" began to receive the assimilation education of white people like other children. "Son of the Wind" did not want white people to shave his hair. He prayed to the great god Wakathanka and cut off his hair with a dagger. Robert and Clara are very kind to "Son of the Wind". They told him that they could use white people's words to record their own history, as long as they don't forget that they are a Lekta and keep their dreams. Robert and Clara are going back to their home, and the children say goodbye to them through the window...

Episode 6
" Ghost Dance, Bison Envoy" cannot change the fantasy of "Roaring Bear", he can only try to understand. Most of the Indians received government relief, and their lives gradually became connected. After growing up, "The Son of the Wind" met Robert again. There was a dance ritual spread among the Indians, and the government panicked, and the Seventh Army was stationed again. .Jacob and "Heart of Thunder" wanted to meet Margaret, but with Robert's efforts, they met, but she returned to the Indian camp. "Son of Wind" also returned to her camp, painfully The reality is that the tribe will never be able to go back in the past. Everyone is in pain. The government arrested people everywhere, killed the patriarch of the camp, and a new conflict began...
"Son of Wind" followed the tribe in exile. Robert found him, but he Refusal to leave. The conflict broke out again, and the "son of the wind" resisted the injured Robert to the carriage, dragged his injured body and disappeared into the depths of the valley...The history of the Indians was finally coming to an end.
Margaret came to the camp where there were bones, and she recorded all this with the camera in her hand. The "Bison Messenger" cut off the deceased's hair, and with the help of Margaret, he held a ritual for the dead, and everything passed away like smoke. Both Jacopo and the "Bison Messenger" are telling the next generation that these stories will be passed on from generation to generation...

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  • Samara 2022-04-21 09:03:20

    The history of blood and tears of the Indians, the growth history of the American West, the wheel of history is rolling forward, the fate of the individual is submerged in the torrent of the times, as an individual, no matter how heroic the passion will tend to be dull, and life will eventually fade away, but every The passion of a generation will live on

  • Mozelle 2022-03-19 09:01:09

    The first and second episodes are very beautiful, and the ending is known from the beginning, so there is no suspense afterwards~~Kelly Russell came out for one episode~~

Into the West quotes

  • Red Lance: [comes back into the house] You let the fire go out.

    Voices That Carry: Didn't notice.

    Red Lance: What good are all these white man's books if you don't know when you're cold?

    Voices That Carry: It's not that cold.

  • Red Lance: You... read all these books?

    Voices That Carry: There's much to learn from them.

    Red Lance: What good is this knowledge?

    Voices That Carry: You have many questions Red Lance, but you have no desire to hear the answers.

    Red Lance: And you do not wish to learn.

    Voices That Carry: I've told you. The Ghost Dance is only superstition. Spirits can't help our people. Only we can do that for ourselves.

    Red Lance: You do not have ears. You will not listen.