Errata

Steven Spielberg's Into the West series on TNT is pretty cool, but it isn't as well-polished as some of Spielberg's previous work. Some mistakes I noticed in the first forty-five minutes of tonight's episode:

A character advertizes California as "Shangri-La". That term, however, was coined in 1936 by James Hilton in The Lost Horizon.

In a scene set in 1837, a Crow Indian drops a Lakota from the saddle while both are riding at some 150 yards. The odds of that happening on the first shot with likely outdated ordnance are prohibitive.

The wagon train going west goes downstream along a large river (the Platte or Missouri, it would have to be) through the Prairies. Downstream on the prairie is, of course, east.