The traders kill the Pawnee, but reveal themselves as nothing more than river pirates. He is saved by Cheyenne warriors, and manages to track down the rogue Pawnee just as they are about to trade his pelts. The theft occurs when Pasquinel is attacked and left for dead by members of the Pawnee tribe, even though he had promised their chief a gun if he were allowed to cross their lands safely. However, the beaver pelts that Pasquinel acquired from the Arapaho, as well as his remaining trade goods, are stolen. Lame Beaver comes to see great courage and honor within this white man, and so trades pelts with him for French trinkets. But Pasquinel puts down his blade in an act of trust, and the two become good friends. Pasquinel and Lame Beaver end up confronting each other in the dead of night, with knives ready. One such trapper is Pasquinel ( Robert Conrad), a French Canadian/ Metis fur trader who has gone out to the Rocky Mountains to trade for beaver pelts. By the end of the 18th century, Lame Beaver's band is camped along the South Platte River, and they begin to encounter white trappers for the first time.
He becomes a great warrior after a single-handed raid on the Comanche brings horses to the Arapaho for the first time, enabling them to become part of the great plains horse culture. A young Arapaho boy named Lame Beaver ( Michael Ansara) grows up during this period. The story begins in the mid-18th century among the Indian tribes of what is now northern Colorado. This section describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective. 6 Differences between the book and miniseries.7 Differences between the book and miniseries.Centennial was released on DVD on July 29, 2008. It had a then huge budget of US$25 million (equal to $90,395,408 today), employed four directors and five cinematographers, and featured over 100 speaking parts spanning 26 hours of television viewing time. The miniseries was one of the longest (26½ hours including commercials) and most ambitious television projects ever attempted at the time.
Its star-studded cast includes Michael Ansara, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Conrad, Barbara Carrera, Richard Crenna, Timothy Dalton, Sharon Gless, Andy Griffith, Mark Harmon, Gregory Harrison, David Janssen, Alex Karras, Brian Keith, Sally Kellerman, Stephen McHattie, Lois Nettleton, Donald Pleasence, Adrienne La Russa, Lynn Redgrave, Clive Revill, Robert Vaughn, Dennis Weaver, Anthony Zerbe, Stephanie Zimbalist, and numerous other well-known actors.
The miniseries follows the history of the area of the fictional town of Centennial, Colorado from the late 18th century to the 1970s. The miniseries was produced by John Wilder. It was based on the novel of the same name by James A. Centennial is a 12-episode American television miniseries that aired on NBC from October 1978 to February 1979.