Kevin Costner has spent many years bringing the American frontier to life — from Dances With Wolves to Hatfields & McCoys to Yellowstone. Now, he’s saddling up once more for History’s Kevin Costner’s The West, an eight-part deep dive into the brutal realities of America’s growth from the time when the “Wild West” was nonetheless east of the Mississippi. Neglect Hollywood’s romanticized cowboys and outlaws. The West is a vivid and unvarnished historical past of the troopers, settlers, warriors and rebels who fought, battled and bled for the proper to stay on their very own phrases and the land of their selecting — regardless of who was already there.