The Whitehall Ledger - Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana

Montana PBS will host a preview of "The American Buffalo," a new two-part, four-hour film series directed by Ken Burns, at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 8, at The Wilma in Missoula.

Approximately one hour of footage will be shown at the preview, and it will be followed by a panel discussion. The event is free and open to the public; doors open at 6:30 p.m.

The series, which has been in production for four years, will take viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent's most iconic landscapes, tracing the mammal's evolution, its signif...