Multimedia Collection
The Geography of Hope
(The West series)
VHS
84 minutes
F591 .G4641 1996
By the late 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. Homesteaders proudly built their homes of prairie sod, then battled drought and hard times to keep them.
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.
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