The geography of hope

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Statement of responsibility: 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

Summary

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

Credits note: Senior/executive producer, Ken Burns ; edited by Richard Hankin ; narrated by Peter Coyote ; senior program consultant, Geoffrey C. Ward

Funding information: Corporate funding provided by General Motors ; major support also provided by National Endowment for the Humanities, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS.

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