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1) The People
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PBS
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English
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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.
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PBS
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English
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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. -...
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PBS
Language
English
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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 WhitmanIt 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 build...
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PBS
Language
English
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“Americans aren't wrong in seeing the West as a land of the future, a land in which astonishing things are possible. What they often are wrong about is that there's no price to be paid for that, that everybody can succeed, or that even what succeeds is necessarily the best for all concerned. The West is much more complicated than that." - Richard WhiteBy 1877, the American conquest of the West was nearly complete. For every Indian in the West, there...
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PBS
Language
English
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“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 DuncanThe United States had envisioned...
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PBS
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles steals its water supply, millions of Mexicans migrate north, and Hollywood begins to shape the West and the nation's image of it.Homesteaders and fortune-seekers still arrived, even though much of the best land had already been claimed. And the frenzy over what was left touched off human stampedes, while whole towns opened for business overnight.But for the first inhabitants of the West, it seemed that a way of life that had lasted for...
Publisher
PBS
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 GilpinBy 1821, no one knew who would control the West’s seemingly infinite spaces,...
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PBS
Language
English
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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 MedicineOn the morning on January...
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