‘Kevin Costner The West’ Rides Again Into the Wild West With New History Channel Series

Kevin Costner has spent decades bringing the American frontier to life — from Dances With Wolves to Hatfields & McCoys to Yellowstone. Now, he’s saddling up again for History’s Kevin Costner’s The West, an eight-part deep dive into the brutal realities of America’s expansion from the time when the “Wild West” was still east of the Mississippi. Forget Hollywood’s romanticized cowboys and outlaws. The West is a vivid and unvarnished history of the soldiers, settlers, warriors and rebels who fought, battled and bled for the right to live on their own terms and the land of their choosing — no matter who was already there.