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Globe trekker (Television program). Wild West.

The Wild West / produced by Pilot Film and Television Productions for American Public Television ; producer, Chris Ledger.

[Los Angeles, California] : Pilot Productions, 2016.

©2016

1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

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Video tour of America's nineteenth century Wild West. Sami Sabiti follows Lewis & Clark's 3700-mile journey while Holly Morris rides the Oregon Wagon Trail to Salt Lake City. Zay Harding visits the Alamo in San Antonio then rides shotgun outside El Paso, Texas, on the Butterfield Stagecoach, which carried passengers on a 3000-mile journey from Missouri to San Francisco. Holly joins the annual re-ride of the 2000-mile Pony Express in Utah, then Zay retraces the route of the transcontinental railroad. On the Great Plains, Zay meets a member of the Lakota tribe, who speaks of the extermination of the buffalo with the building of the railroad. Finally, Ian Wright heads to the Little Bighorn battlefield in Montana, the site of Custer's famous Last Stand.

"Globe trekker special"--Program screens.

Originally produced as an episode of the television series Globe trekker, ©2015.

Summary adapted from container.

Travellers, Zay Harding, Holly Morris, Ian Wright, Sami Sabiti, Justine Shapiro.

Globe trekker history series

Globe trekker history series.

West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.

West (U.S.) -- Description and travel

Travelogues (Television programs)

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Harding, Zay, host.

Morris, Holly, 1965- host.

Wright, Ian, 1965- host.

Sabiti, Sami, host.

Shapiro, Justine, host.

Ledger, Chris, television producer.

Pilot Film and Television Productions, production company, publisher.

Globe trekker (Television program)

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