The geography of hope [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 (85 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:
By the 1870s the American conquest of the West was nearly complete. In one decade, with Native Americans effectively confined to reservations, some four-and-a-half million new settlers would arrive to stake their claim to the future. Pap Singleton, an ex-slave from Tennessee, became the era's "Black Moses," leading his people to the free soil of Kansas. A frail New York politician transformed himself into a rugged North Dakota rancher, and eventually, president of the United States. And as Americans tried to "tame" the West, the nation's greatest showman, Buffalo Bill Cody, instead offered adoring crowds his enthusiastic version of a "Wild West"--Heroic, glorious, romantic, and most of all, mythic.
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