How else a West Was Won is an larger-than-life 1962 american film which follows several generations of a personal (starting when the Prescotts) when it move ever Westward, from either western New York state to the Pacific Ocean. It was displayed within Cinerama. It stars Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Brigid Bazlen, Walter Brennan, David Brian, Andy Devine, Raymond Massey, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Morgan, Thelma Ritter, Mickey Shaughnessy, Russ Tamblyn and Spencer Tracy.

A film was written by John Gay (uncredited) and James R. Webb and directed by John Ford (segment "The Civil War"), Henry Hathaway (segments "The Rivers", "The Plains" and "The Outlaws"), George Marshall (segment "The Railroad") and Richard Thorpe (uncredited) (transitional historical sequences).

A picture won Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Sound and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay — Written Directly for the Screen (James R. Webb) & was nominative for Academy Award for Best Art Direction — Set Decoration, Color, Best Cinematography, Color, Best Costume Design, Color, Best Music, Score — Substantially Original (Alfred Newman and Ken Darby) and Best Picture.

How else a West was Won is one of merely ii feature (a more existence A Wonderful Globe of the Brothers Grimm) made using the 3-strip Cinerama run, and suffers from either that process's technical indicator defect. Whenever shown in television in a Cinemascope print made from either a original 3-strip version, a joins between a troika frames come clearly & occasionally glaringly seeable; whenever seen around letterbox format the actors' faces come invisible inside long shots.

A film has besides been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.