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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
“Time after time, Congress and the people in the East saw the West as a safety valve, a place where you could go and escape the problems of where you were, it was part of the whole myth of the West. You could escape and be free. Well, we thought we could escape whatever national tensions and unresolved problems we had, but it came back you know, like a big wind from the prairie, bigger and bigger each time.- Dayton Duncan. The United States had...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
I see over my own continent the Pacific railroad surmounting every barrier.I see continual trains of cars winding along the Platte, carrying freight and passengers. I hear the locomotives rushing and roaring...- Walt Whitman. It had taken the bloodshed and sacrifice of the Civil War to reunite the nation, North and South. But when the war was over, Americans set out with equal determination to unite the nation, East and West. To do it, they would...
Publisher
Imavision Distribution
Edition
Special collector's ed.
Language
English
Description
Look Back to Yesterday Directed by Victor French -- Charles Ingalls pays a return visit to Walnut Grove. During his stay he learns that his son Albert, a doctor in training, has contracted a fatal blood disease. Also, Walnut Grove is facing a recession.
Bless All the Dear Children Directed by Victor French -- Laura and Almanzo's baby is kidnapped during the Christmas season. The family finds her with a woman who was longing to have a child of her...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
There are all kinds of people on earth that you will meet some day... They will be looking for a certain stone. They will be people who do not get tired, but who will keep pushing forward, going, going all the time... These people do not follow the way of our great-grandfather. They follow another way. They will travel everywhere, looking for this stone which our great-grandfather put on the earth in many places. Sweet Medicine. On the morning on...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
The West begins as the whole world to the people who live there. It becomes a New World when Europeans arrive, a world shaken by incompatible visions. And almost three centuries later, when Lewis and Clark venture west to find a Northwest Passage, this world becomes the testing-ground for a young nation's continent-spanning dream.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
The American realizes that 'Progress is God.' The destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent -- to rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean... to change darkness into light and confirm the destiny of the human race... Divine task! Immortal mission! The pioneer army perpetually strikes to the front. Empire plants itself upon the trails.-William Gilpin. By 1821, no one knew who would control the West’s seemingly infinite spaces,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white men....He said: “My son...when I am gone...you are the chief of these people....Always remember that your father never sold his country....This country holds your father's body. Never sell the bones of your father and mother." I pressed my father’s hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life....A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal. -...
Series
Publisher
Rockstar Games
Language
English
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Description
"America, 1911. The Wild West is dying. When federal agents threaten his family, former outlaw John Marsten is forced to pick up his guns again and hunt down the gang of criminals he once called friends. Experience an epic fight for survival across the sprawling expanses of the American West and Mexico, as John Marsten struggles to bury his blood-stained past, one man at a time"--Container.
10) The West
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the history of the American West, starting with the first European explorations and ending with the beginning of the 20th century. Examines the impact of the white settlers on the lives of the Native Americans and the land. Also discusses the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad, the battle of Little Bighorn, and the massacre at Wounded Knee.
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Books
Language
English
Description
Experience the Wild West through the eyes of the three McConnell brothers who long to overcome their troubled childhood as drunkard's sons. Can Alec show that he's worthy of the ranch boss's daughter? Can Trace help a distraught woman trust again? Will Cal prove his innocence to a U. S. Marshal in disguise? Will they each find a woman with whom they can trust their tender hearts?
Author
Series
American girl collection; Kirsten volume 3
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Language
English
Description
Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota.
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