West (Television program). Geography of hope.

Geography of hope / Ken Burns presents a film by Stephen Ives ; a co-production of Insignia Films and WETA-TV, Washington, in association with Florentine Films and Time-Life Video & Television ; directed by Stephen Ives ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward & Dayton Duncan ; produced by Stephen Ives, Jody Abramson, Michael Kantor.

[Alexandria, VA] : Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), [1996]

1 online resource (86 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences

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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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English

August 28, 2023

Edited by Richard Hankin ; director of photography, Buddy Squires with Allen Moore ; music, Matthias Gohl.

Narrated by Peter Coyote.

Not rated.

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