How the West Was Won is an Oscar Award-winning western released in 1963. The all-star cast includes Carrol Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, and John Wayne, just to name a few. The story follows the Prescotts, a family who begins to migrate from the Erie Canal in the 1830's, finally settling in the West fifty years later.

How the West Was Won is a Western epic about the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century. It is told through the four generations of the Prescott family - an Eastern family moving West - and is broken up into five segments throughout the Century.

The story follows the Prescotts migrating down the Ohio River through Illinois Country across the Western frontier. They encounter bandits, Indian tribes and lawlessness in their pursuit of the west and the dream of pioneering.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056085/plotsummary

• Carrol Baker

• Lee J. Cobb

• Henry Fonda

• Carolyn Jones