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Title:

Empire upon the trails [videorecording] / a co-production of Insignia Films and WETA-TV, Washington in association with Florentine Films and Time-Life Video & Television ; directed by Stephen Ives.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Turner Home Entertainment,

Copyright Date:

c1996

Description:

1 videocassette (84 min.) : sd., col. and B & W ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

West (U.S.)--History--To 1848.
West (U.S.)--Discovery and exploration.
Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss,--1808-1847.
Houston, Sam,--1793-1863.
Sager family.
Oregon National Historic Trail.
United States--Territorial expansion.
Films for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Ives, Stephen.
Abramson, Jody.
Kantor, Michael.
Ward, Geoffrey C.
Duncan, Dayton.
Burns, Ken, 1953-
Coyote, Peter.
Insignia Films.
Florentine Films.
Time Life Video & Television.
WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
PBS Home Video.
Turner Home Entertainment (Firm)

Notes:

Historical TV documentary series. "Ken Burns presents The West, a film by Stephen Ives"--Container. Originally produced as a TV series by WETA-TV, Washington, D.C.

Summary:

In the early 1800's, no one knew who would control the seemingly infinite spaces of the West. Hopeful Americans moved onward toward Manifest Destiny, as they determined to make the West--all of it--their own.

Series:

West ; 2

ISBN:

9780780613454 (v. 2)
0780613457 (v. 2)

Locations:

JLPF081 -- Ericson Public Library (Boone)