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099    Streaming Video Kanopy 
245 00 Ken Burns :|bThe West.|h[Kanopy electronic resource] 
264  1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
       |c2015. 
300    1 online resource (8 video files, approximately 720 min.) 
       :|bdigital, .flv file, sound 
336    two-dimensional moving image|btdi|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
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347    video file|bMPEG-4|bFlash 
500    Title from title frames. 
518    Originally produced by PBS in 1996. 
520    The West, an eight-part series, chronicles the turbulent 
       history of one of the most extraordinary landscapes on 
       earth—a place that is simultaneously enticing and 
       forbidding, filled with stories of both heartbreaking 
       tragedy and undying hope. Beginning when the land belonged
       only to Native Americans and ending in the 20th century, 
       the film introduces unforgettable characters—from gold 
       seekers to cowboys, from homesteaders to Indian 
       leaders—whose competing dreams transformed the land, and 
       turned the West into a lasting symbol of our nation 
       itself. It was a tragic, inspiring intersection where the 
       best of us met the worst of us—and nothing was left 
       unchanged. The West stretches from the Mississippi to the 
       Pacific Ocean, from the northern plains to the Rio Grande 
       -- more than two million square miles of the most 
       extraordinary landscape on earth. It is a land of broad 
       rivers and vast deserts, deep canyons and impenetrable 
       mountains, boundless prairies and endless forests, a place
       where towering monoliths and boiling waters rise naturally
       from the earth. People have come to the West from every 
       point of the compass. To the Spanish, who traveled up from
       Mexico, it was the North. British and French explorers 
       arrived by coming south; the Chinese and the Russians, by 
       going east. It was the Americans -- the last to arrive -- 
       who named it the West. But to the people who already lived
       there, it was home -- the center of the universe. They had
       lived there so long, their stories of creation linked them
       to the land itself. The Comanches said they came from 
       swirls of dust; the Hidatsas from the bottom of a big 
       lake. Among the sacred bundles of the Zuñis was a stone, 
       they said, within which beats the heart of the world. Soon
       there would be other myths: myths of golden cities with 
       treasure for the taking and souls in need of salvation. 
       And another longer-lasting myth, eventually pursued by two
       Americans across the vastness of the West itself -- the 
       myth of an elusive Northwest Passage that would lead them 
       and their nation to the sea. The West is a story of 
       conquest, of competing promises and competing visions of 
       the land. Many peoples laid claim to the West, and many 
       played a part in settling it. But in the end, only one 
       nation would demand it all -- and take it. And in the end,
       by moving west, that nation would discover itself. "When 
       Americans tell stories about themselves, they set those 
       stories in the West. American heroes are Western heroes, 
       and when you begin to think of the quintessential American
       characters, they're always someplace over the horizon. 
       There's always some place in the West, where something 
       wonderful is about to happen.... And even when we turn 
       that around... even when we say, well, something has been 
       lost, what's lost is always in the West." - Richard White 
       "It is a dream. It is what people who have come here from 
       the beginning of time have dreamed. It's a dream 
       landscape. To the Native American, it's full of sacred 
       realities, powerful things. It's a landscape that has to 
       be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may 
       have to be believed in order to be seen." - N. Scott 
       Momaday. "I think that the West is the most powerful 
       reality in the history of this country. It's always had a 
       power, a presence, an attraction that differentiated it 
       from the rest of the United States. Whether the West was a
       place to be conquered, or the West as it is today, a place
       to be protected and nurtured. It is the regenerative force
       of America." - J. S. Holliday. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Frontier and pioneer life|vHistory|y1607-1914|zWestern 
       United States. 
650  0 Civil War|vHistory|zUnited States. 
650  0 Gold Rush|vHistory|zUnited States. 
650  0 Native Americans|vHistory|zUnited States. 
655  7 Documentary films.|2lcgft 
700 1  Burns, Ken,|d1953-|efilm director. 
710 2  Kanopy (Firm) 
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