Multimedia Collection
The Grandest Enterprise Under God
(The West series)
VHS
84 minutes
F591 .G7261 1996
After the Civil War reunited the North and the South, Americans set out with a new energy and optimism to finally unite the country, East and West. They embarked on one of the greatest technological achievements of the age, to conquer the forbidding mountains, harsh deserts and awesome distances by building the first transcontinental railroad.
Railroads soon transformed the West, bringing in landless European peasants and poor but determined families whose most fervent dream was a farm they could call their own. Cowpokes such as Teddy Blue Abbott would ride dusty cattle trails to deliver herds of longhorns to boisterous railheads such as Dodge and Abilene, while buffalo hunters such as Frank Mayer would drive a magnificent animal that symbolized the West to the brink of extinction.
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