The American West : History, Myth, and Legacy

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Call Number: Adult DVD / Great Courses / History / United States / American West
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Compact disc.
The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures.
Westward the course of empire -- The West in the colonial era -- Venturing beyond the Appalachians -- Discoveries of Lewis and Clark -- The fur trade and the mountain men -- Trail of tears -- Struggles of the Plains Indians -- Rebellious Texas and the Alamo -- Traveling the Oregon Trail -- Manifest Destiny and the Mexican War -- The California gold rush -- Bleeding Kansas and Civil War in the West -- Building the transcontinental railroads -- Cowboys and cattle drives -- Homesteaders on the plains - Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee -- Life in western towns and cities -- John Wesley Powell and the desert southwest -- Women in the wild west - From territories to western states -- Western violence, law, and order -- Protecting Yellowstone and Yosemite -- Mythology of the American West -- Winning the West?
Lecturer: Professor Patrick N. Allitt.
Experience the grit and the glory of the early American West with an acclaimed Great Courses professor.
DVD.

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