Its a good show! I saw it several times when I was a kid and have been planning to take my kids - just haven't. As was already stated, read the frontiersman, its awesome and has a comfortable place in our home right next to my favorite toilet. I've probably read it a dozen times. We live in what was once some really wild country, and the local history is something that's always interested me.
The show does end pretty late in the evening, Mike. I've heard they have taken some of the brutality out of it, which was a highlight in my mind. If people realized all that our forefathers went through to settle and create this country, perhaps we wouldn't be so quick to give it away.