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The WestSummary: This film explores the final subjugation of defiant Indian tribes and other holdouts to federal authority in the West. Included in this program are balanced, up-to-date portrayals of many of the most memorable characters from America's past, including George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, Brigham Young, and Chief Joseph.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: This program explains how the transcontinental railroad was built, and then how it opened up the West to European settlers and brought on the extermination of the buffalo and the defeat of Southern Plains Indian tribes. Viewers will witness the transformation through first-person accounts from Native Americans, European immigrants, Chinese laborers, buffalo hunters, homesteaders from the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996