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384) Buffalo Bill
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
This film presents a portrait of the man who made the American West into the American story. For most Americans in the mid-1800s, the Wild West existed only in dime novels, but a young man from Kansas who had roamed the prairies in the war with the Plains Indians came to embody the picaresque frontier hero. As the frontier was rapidly disappearing, he realized he could market his life as entertainment, and millions around the world would pay for...
Author
Publisher
Hall Family Foundation
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) also created two extraordinary bodies of work depicting the transformation of the American West: Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railway and Scenes in the Indian County. In 1867, after joining the survey team for what became the Kansas Pacific Railroad, Gardner photographed the path of the proposed extension, emphasizing the ease of future railroad construction and...
Publisher
Distributed by HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in the Black Hills--on Sioux land. In this film, the lives...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices was a relatively brief interlude in the history of migrant agricultural labor. Yet it attracted wide attention through the publication of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and the images of Farm Security Administration photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein. Ironically, their work risked sublimating the subjects-real people and actual...
391) Sitting Bull
Author
Publisher
Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A simple biography of the Sioux chief who worked to maintain the rights of Native American people and who led the defeat of General Custer at the Little Big Horn in 1876.
Author
Series
La casa del �arbol volume 18
Publisher
Lectorum Publications
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Español
Description
Annie y Jack viajan 200 a�nos atr�as en la casa del �arbol, junto a Teddy, el perro encantado, a las Grandes Llanuras. All�i se encuentran con un ni�no de la tribu Lakota, que les ense�na a cazar b�ufalos. Pero, de pronto... �algo sale mal! Y una gigante manada de b�ufalos se prepara para una estampida. �Podr�an deternerlos?
The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life...
