Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas
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The legendary Rio Grande River cuts deep canyons between the United States and Mexico, creating staggering landscapes in the largest protected area of its kind in North America. The most remote corner of this infamous borderland is the National Park known as Big Bend - a vast, unspoiled wonderland of serene beauty and home to some of America's most glorious wildlife. This is America's true frontier land, where horizons never end and stars blaze as they have done for eons. Journey alongside black bears, witness an elaborate hummingbird courtship display, and observe bats stalking the desert floor to seek out scorpions. New Western dramas unfold in these untamed borderlands.

Episode Duration: 56 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 3904

About Nature:

NATURE, television's longest-running weekly natural history series, has won more than 200 honors from the television industry, parent groups, the international wildlife film community and environmental organizations, including the only award ever given to a television program by the Sierra Club.


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Sat, Oct 12 11:00 A.M. Super Cats: Extreme Lives     NH Explore (11.2)
Sat, Oct 19 11:00 A.M. Super Cats: Cats In Every Corner     NH Explore (11.2)
Wed, Oct 23 8:00 P.M. Silverback     NHPBS (11.1)
Thu, Oct 24 12:00 A.M. Silverback     NHPBS (11.1)
Thu, Oct 24 3:00 P.M. Silverback     NHPBS (11.1)
Fri, Oct 25 4:00 A.M. Silverback     NHPBS (11.1)
Sat, Oct 26 11:00 A.M. Super Cats: Science and Secrets     NH Explore (11.2)
Sat, Oct 26 12:00 P.M. Silverback     NH Explore (11.2)
Sun, Oct 27 1:00 A.M. Silverback     NHPBS (11.1)
Sun, Oct 27 7:00 P.M. Silverback     NH Explore (11.2)
Sun, Oct 27 8:00 P.M. Silverback     NH World (11.3)
Mon, Oct 28 12:00 A.M. Silverback     NH World (11.3)
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Wed, Oct 30 8:00 P.M. Dracula's Hidden Kingdom     NHPBS (11.1)
Thu, Oct 31 12:00 A.M. Dracula's Hidden Kingdom     NHPBS (11.1)
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