John C. Bailey

Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Ford .THE MEN WHO BUILT AMERICA. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The Men Who Built America mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States, a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen. (amazon.com)

In 1788 the slave ship Africa, set sail from West Africa and headed for America with its cargo - hundreds of men, women and children bound in chains. One of them, a 26-year-old man named Abdul-Rahman made a remarkable claim to the farmer who later purchased him at auction that he was an African prince and that his father would pay gold for his ransom. The offer was refused and Abdul-Rahman did not return to Africa for another 40 years. (imdb)

An ambitious widow vows "There will be hell to pay" when a prominent Montana rancher puts up a barbed wire fence between their properties.