The Grandest Enterprise under God The West, a Film by Stephen Ives

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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 eastern U.S., and cowboys on the dusty trails leading from Texas.

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Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (84 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2011], c1996.

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Formatted Contents Note:	Vision of Railroads (2:03) -- Achievements & Consequences of Railroads (2:58) -- An Audacious Plan (2:55) -- Central Pacific & Union Pacific Contracts (2:04) -- Union Pacific Workers (1:49) -- Underbelly of Railroad Culture (1:53) -- Sacred Buffalo (2:22) -- Endangering Buffalo & Angering Indigenous People (2:38) -- Central Pacific's Chinese Labor Force (2:20) -- Introduction of Explosives (1:49) -- Peril & Fatality for Chinese Workers (2:20) -- Finally Emerging from Sierras (0:54) -- Native American Fear of Buffalo Extinction (1:22) -- Goodnight-Loving Cattle Trail (3:01) -- Loving's Death & Burial (2:24) -- Race to the Finish (1:54) -- Promontory Point, Utah (2:45) -- National Significance of Railroad (1:25) -- Mormon Isolation Ruined (1:51) -- Mormon Women, Polygamy, & Feminism (2:05) -- Women's Suffrage in Utah (2:34) -- Railroad & Buffalo Hunters (1:41) -- Demand for Buffalo (2:21) -- Railroad's Call for Settlers (2:11) -- European Settlers of Wide Open West (2:04) -- Isolation in the West (1:19) -- Oblinger Family's Move West (2:32) -- Oblinger's Recorded Experience (2:12) -- End of Oblingers' Western Life (2:08) -- Cowboy Character (2:43) -- Strenuous Cowboy Life (1:58) -- Corrupt Cowtowns (3:04) -- Walt Whitman, on the Railroad (1:24) -- Conflict of Cultures (1:00) -- Hunting Ideologies in Conflict (2:02) -- Buffalo Slaughter & Buffalo Products (2:35) -- Native American Uprising & Hunters' Greed (2:55) -- Spiritual & Cultural Wounds from`Buffalo Extinction (2:19) -- Credits: The Grandest Enterprise under God: The West, a Film by Stephen Ives (2:42)
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Target Audience Note:	6 and up.
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