The People [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 (82 min.) : sd., col. and B & W ; 1/2 in.
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:
To the original Native American inhabitants, the West has been a land of myth. To the Europeans, such as Cabeza de Vaca and Coronado, the West was a "wilderness" to be conquered. Nearly 100 years before the American Revolution, the Pueblo people of the Southwest rose up against their European masters and drove the Spanish from their lands. Then, with America's purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1804, Lewis and Clark set off to find the fabled Northwest Passage, as a confident young nation prepared for its own epic march across the West.
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