0783585217

9780783585215

Originally produced as a television mini-series.

"A co-production of Insignia Films and WETA-TV, Washington inassociation with Florentine Films and Time-Life Video & Television."

Narrator: Peter Coyote.

Close captioned.

As the 20th century neared, Americans celebrated with the World Columbian Exposition, where they were told that the frontier had closed, but in the real West, for every frontier story that ended, another one began. Some Native Americans waged a struggle to hold onto their traditions in the midst of rapid, overwhelming change, while others chose to learn the white man's ways, hoping to help their families and their tribe.

In California, the emerging metropolis of Los Angeles waged yet another battle to control the arid region's most precious commodity--water. Much had changed in the West, but it continued to be what it had always been--a landscape of the imagination, the reservoir of our shared hopes and dreams, a place of both conflict and infinite possibility, and an enduring symbol of something unquestionably American.

The West ; 9

1800 > 1945

Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)

Indians of North America > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.

West (U.S.) > History > 1890-1945.

California > History > 19th century.

Los Angeles (Calif.) > History > 19th century.

California > Los Angeles.

Insignia Films.

WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)

Florentine Films.

Time Life Video & Television.