Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin led the gritty miniseries about a family's trek across the American West in 1857.

While the story that unfolds on-screen took place in the 19th century Utah Territory – now Utah state – the show was filmed entirely in New Mexico, 600 miles to the south east.

America's past is pock-marked with cruelty, blood and deceit, and while more and more films and movies ("1883," "Killers Of The Flower Moon," "Power Of The Dog," et al) have tried to show that reality in recent years,