Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin star in “American Primeval” (Netflix, Jan. 9), a frontier drama about the collision of American settlers and native inhabitants in the American West of the 1850s.

for the better part of the 1990s. Also,the new series American Primeval, starring Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin, explores one of the lesser known eras of American history, the Utah War of 1857-58.